Proverbs 2:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

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  • Prov 5:4-9 : 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword; 5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld; 6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge. 7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you. 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house; 9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men: 10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others; 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; 13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me! 14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
  • Prov 6:26-35 : 26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life. 27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing? 28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned? 29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment. 30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: 31 But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house. 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. 33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away. 34 For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. 35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.
  • Prov 7:22-27 : 22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; 23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side. 24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth; 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. 26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army. 27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
  • 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, 10 Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, 21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
  • Eph 5:5 : 5 Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.

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  • Prov 2:19-20
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    19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

    20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 5:4-6
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    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

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

    6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 2:15-17
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    15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

    16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

  • Prov 5:8
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    8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Prov 7:11-12
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    11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Hos 2:6-7
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    6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

    7 And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

  • Prov 9:18
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    18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

  • Prov 21:16
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    16 The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Prov 6:26
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    26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Prov 14:12
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    12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

    22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

  • Prov 2:13
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    13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

  • Prov 23:27
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    27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24 Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

  • Prov 9:14-16
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    14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

    15 Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

    16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 4:14-15
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    14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

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

  • Prov 9:2
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    2 She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

  • Prov 14:1
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    1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • 1 Tim 5:6
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    6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

  • Prov 8:2
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    2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

  • Prov 9:4
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    4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 4:6
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    6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • Job 6:18
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    18 The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • Prov 16:25
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    25 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Prov 1:15-16
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    15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

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

  • Prov 12:28
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    28 In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

  • Job 38:20
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    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • Prov 6:24
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    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

  • Jer 2:33
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    33 With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.