Proverbs 2:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.

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  • Prov 5:4-9 : 4 But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde. 5 Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell. 6 She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them. 7 Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth. 8 Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house, 9 Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell: 10 Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger, 11 And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie) 12 And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction! 13 And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me! 14 I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
  • Prov 6:26-35 : 26 For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man. 27 Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt? 28 Or can a man go vpon coales, and his feete not be burnt? 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife, shall not be innocent, whosoeuer toucheth her. 30 Men do not despise a thiefe, when he stealeth, to satisfie his soule, because he is hungrie. 31 But if he be founde, he shall restore seuen folde, or he shall giue all the substance of his house. 32 But he that committeth adulterie with a woman, he is destitute of vnderstanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule. 33 He shall finde a wounde and dishonour, and his reproch shall neuer be put away. 34 For ielousie is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 35 He cannot beare the sight of any raunsome: neither will he consent, though thou augment the giftes.
  • Prov 7:22-27 : 22 And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction, 23 Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger. 24 Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths. 26 For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, & the strong men are all slaine by her. 27 Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.
  • 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Knowe yee not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor buggerers, 10 Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall inherite the kingdome of God. 11 And such were some of you: but yee are washed, but yee are sanctified, but yee are iustified in the Name of the Lorde Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes, 20 Idolatrie, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies, 21 Enuie, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonie, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also haue tolde you before, that they which doe such things, shall not inherite the kingdome of God.
  • Eph 5:5 : 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, neither vncleane person, nor couetous person, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdome of Christ, and of God.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable and murtherers, and whoremogers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, & all liars shall haue their part in the lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 For without shall be dogges and enchanters, and whoremongers, and murtherers, and idolaters, and whosoeuer loueth or maketh lies.

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  • Prov 2:19-20
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    19All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

    20Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

    26For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, & the strong men are all slaine by her.

    27Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 5:4-6
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    4But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

    5Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.

    6She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

  • Prov 2:15-17
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    80%

    15Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.

    16And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

    17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17Her wayes are wayes of pleasure, and all her pathes prosperitie.

    18She is a tree of life to them that lay holde on her, and blessed is he that retaineth her.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26(7:28) And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Prov 7:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

    12Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

  • Prov 7:8
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    8Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

  • Hos 2:6-7
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    6Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.

    7Though shee followe after her louers, yet shall shee not come at them: though shee seeke them, yet shall shee not finde them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husbande: for at that time was I better then nowe.

  • Prov 9:18
    73%

    18But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.

  • Prov 21:16
    73%

    16A man that wandreth out of the way of wisdome, shall remaine in the congregation of the dead.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

  • Prov 14:12
    73%

    12There is a way that seemeth right to a man: but the issues thereof are the wayes of death.

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    72%

    21Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

    22And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,

  • Prov 2:13
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    13And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:

  • Prov 23:27
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    27For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

  • Prov 15:24
    72%

    24The way of life is on high to the prudent, to auoyde from hell beneath.

  • Prov 9:14-16
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    72%

    14But she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate in the hie places of the citie,

    15To call them that passe by the way, that go right on their way, saying,

    16Who so is simple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisedome, shee sayth also,

  • Prov 4:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.

    15Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

  • Prov 9:2
    72%

    2She hath killed her vitailes, drawen her wine, and prepared her table.

  • Prov 14:1
    72%

    1A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish destroyeth it with her owne handes.

  • 1 Tim 5:6
    71%

    6But shee that liueth in pleasure, is dead, while shee liueth.

  • Prov 8:2
    71%

    2She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.

  • Prov 9:4
    71%

    4Who so is simple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisedome, she sayth,

  • Prov 4:6
    70%

    6Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.

  • Job 6:18
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    18Or they depart from their way and course, yea, they vanish and perish.

  • Prov 16:25
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    25There is a way that seemeth right vnto man: but the issue thereof are the wayes of death.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.

    16For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

  • Prov 12:28
    70%

    28Life is in the way of righteousnesse, and in that path way there is no death.

  • Job 38:20
    70%

    20That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?

  • Prov 6:24
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    24To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

  • Jer 2:33
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    33Why doest thou prepare thy way, to seeke amitie? euen therefore will I teach thee, that thy waies are wickednesse.