Proverbs 1:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 6:18 : 18 A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man)
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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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
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    88%

    6Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

    7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

    8The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Prov 6:17-18
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    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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  • Prov 1:17-19
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    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

    18And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

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  • Prov 1:10-11
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    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

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  • Prov 2:12-15
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    12To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

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

    14Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

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  • Prov 4:14-17
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    14Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

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

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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

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    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Prov 19:2
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    2Also, for the soul to be without knowledge is not good; and he who hurries with his feet sins.

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

    27Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

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    29A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into a way that is not good.

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

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    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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    14Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

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    19As righteousness leads to life, so he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

  • Job 22:15
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    15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

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  • Prov 16:17
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  • Prov 22:5
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  • Prov 21:7
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    7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

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    15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.