Proverbs 1:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:18 : 18 A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Rom 3:14-16
    3 verses
    90%

    14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

    15Their feet are quick in running after blood;

    16Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

  • Isa 59:6-8
    3 verses
    88%

    6Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

    7Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

    8They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

  • Prov 1:15
    84%

    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Prov 6:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

    18A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

  • Prov 1:17-19
    3 verses
    80%

    17Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

    18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

    19Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Prov 1:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

    11If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

  • Prov 2:12-15
    4 verses
    76%

    12Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

    13Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

    14Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

    15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

  • Prov 4:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

    14Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

    15Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Prov 24:2
    75%

    2For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Prov 19:2
    75%

    2Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

  • Prov 4:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

    27Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

  • Hos 4:2
    74%

    2There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Mic 2:1
    74%

    1A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

  • Jer 5:26
    73%

    26For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

  • Isa 3:9
    73%

    9Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Prov 16:29
    73%

    29A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

  • Mic 7:3
    73%

    3Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Prov 5:5
    73%

    5Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

  • Isa 59:3
    73%

    3For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

  • Ps 58:2
    73%

    2The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

  • Ps 56:6
    72%

    6They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

  • Prov 6:14
    72%

    14His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

  • Job 18:8
    72%

    8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

  • Prov 11:19
    72%

    19So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

  • Job 22:15
    72%

    15Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • Ps 55:15
    72%

    15Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • Eccl 8:11
    72%

    11Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

  • Eccl 5:1
    72%

    1Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

  • Prov 28:17
    72%

    17One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

  • Prov 16:17
    72%

    17The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

  • Prov 22:5
    72%

    5Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

  • Ps 94:21
    72%

    21They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • Prov 21:7
    72%

    7By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Ps 9:15
    71%

    15The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.