Proverbs 2:19

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None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
  • Jer 13:23 : 23 But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?
  • Hos 4:14 : 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men consort with harlots, they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. It is true:“A people that lacks understanding will come to ruin!”
  • Matt 19:24-26 : 24 Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.” 25 The disciples were greatly astonished when they heard this and said,“Then who can be saved?” 26 Jesus looked at them and replied,“This is impossible for mere humans, but for God all things are possible.”
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 2:15-18
    4 verses
    88%

    15 whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

    16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;

    17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.

    18 For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.

  • Prov 5:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

    5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

    6 Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.

  • 20 So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;

    26 for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many.

    27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

    9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

  • Prov 4:13-15
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    13 Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

    14 Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.

    15 Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    74%

    17 Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

    18 She is like a tree of life to those who grasp onto her, and everyone who takes hold of her will be blessed.

  • 16 The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

  • 18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

  • 24 The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • 10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • 15 My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

  • 13 who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

  • 12 There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

  • Prov 9:15-16
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    15 calling out to those who are passing by her in the way, who go straight on their way.

    16 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding she has said,

  • 28 In the path of righteousness there is life, but another path leads to death.

  • 26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

  • Hos 2:6-7
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    70%

    6 The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

    7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.”

  • 22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

  • 8 He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house

  • 25 There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

  • 26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

  • 18 But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

  • 19 True righteousness leads to life, but the one who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

  • 17 The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life.

  • 4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding, she has said,

  • 6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.

  • 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

  • Prov 7:11-12
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    11 (She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home–

    12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

  • 19 But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • 21 For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.

  • 8 They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.

  • 19 Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

  • 15 Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

  • 22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

  • 32 “‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!