Proverbs 2:19

Authorized King James Version (1611)

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
  • Jer 13:23 : 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
  • Hos 4:14 : 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.
  • Matt 19:24-26 : 24 ‹And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.› 25 When his disciples heard [it], they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26 But Jesus beheld [them], and said unto them, ‹With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.›
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 2:15-18
    4 verses
    88%

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

    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

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

    18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

  • Prov 5:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

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

    6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

  • 20That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
    78%

    25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

    26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her.

    27Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 5:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

    9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

  • Prov 4:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.

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

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

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.

    18She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

  • 16¶ The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

  • 18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

  • 24¶ The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • 10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

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

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

  • 12¶ There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.

  • Prov 9:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15To call passengers who go right on their ways:

    16Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

  • 28¶ In the way of righteousness [is] life; and [in] the pathway [thereof there is] no death.

  • 26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Hos 2:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

    7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.

  • 22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  • 8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

  • 25¶ There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.

  • 26For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • 18But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.

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

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

  • 4Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

  • 6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

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

  • Prov 7:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

    12Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • 19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • 21For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

  • 8The 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.

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

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

  • 22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

  • 32[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!