Proverbs 1:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:18 : 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:14-16
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    14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:

    15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

    16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

  • Isa 59:6-8
    3 verses
    88%

    6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.

    7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

    8 The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  • 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Prov 6:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

    18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

  • Prov 1:17-19
    3 verses
    80%

    17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

    18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

    19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Prov 1:10-11
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    10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

    11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

  • Prov 2:12-15
    4 verses
    76%

    12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;

    13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

    14 Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

    15 Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

  • Prov 4:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

    14 ¶ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].

    15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

    16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

    17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • 2 ¶ Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth.

  • Prov 4:26-27
    2 verses
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    26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

    27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

  • 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • 1 ¶ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • 26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • 9 ¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 29 ¶ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good.

  • 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

  • 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

  • 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • 14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

  • 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

  • 19 ¶ As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.

  • 15 ¶ Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

  • 15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

  • 19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • 1 ¶ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

  • 17 ¶ A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

  • 17 ¶ The highway of the upright [is] to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

  • 5 ¶ Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

  • 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • 7 ¶ The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

  • 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.