Proverbs 5:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:21 : 21 Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.
  • Job 36:12 : 12 But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of sense.
  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 An evil person will be thrown down through his wickedness, but a righteous person takes refuge in his integrity.
  • 2 Pet 2:15-22 : 15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 16 yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness). 17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved. 18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error. 19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved. 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 5:22
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    22The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

  • Prov 15:10
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    10Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.

  • Prov 21:16
    76%

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

  • Prov 10:17
    75%

    17The one who heeds instruction is on the way to life, but the one who rejects rebuke goes astray.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course.

  • Prov 1:31-32
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    74%

    31Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

    32For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • Prov 19:2-3
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    2It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.

    3A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

  • Prov 16:22
    73%

    22Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

  • Prov 14:7-8
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    7Walk abreast with a foolish person, and you do not understand wise counsel.

    8The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

  • Job 36:12
    72%

    12But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.

  • Eccl 10:3
    72%

    3Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, and shows everyone what a fool he is.

  • Ezek 33:18
    72%

    18When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

  • Prov 9:6
    71%

    6Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

  • Prov 19:16
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    16The one who obeys commandments guards his life; the one who despises his ways will die.

  • Prov 14:12
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    12There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise you might die before your time.

  • Prov 29:1
    71%

    1The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

  • Prov 17:25
    71%

    25A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Job 5:2
    71%

    2For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

  • Prov 22:15
    71%

    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

  • Job 18:7
    71%

    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

  • Prov 16:25
    71%

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

  • Prov 17:21
    71%

    21Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Ezek 3:20
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    20“When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.

  • Prov 13:18
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    18The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15The way of a fool is right in his own opinion, but the one who listens to advice is wise.

  • Eccl 10:15
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    15The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.

  • Prov 23:13
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    13Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

  • Prov 15:32
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    32The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever listens to reproof acquires understanding.

  • Ps 49:10
    70%

    10Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.

  • Prov 7:22-23
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    22Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

    23till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

  • Job 4:21
    70%

    21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

  • Ps 49:19
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    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • Prov 11:5
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    5The righteousness of the blameless will make their way smooth, but the wicked will fall through their own wickedness.

  • Prov 10:8
    70%

    8The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 26:5
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    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own opinion.

  • Prov 14:18
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    18The naive have inherited folly, but the shrewd will be crowned with knowledge.

  • Prov 19:27
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    27If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

  • Prov 14:16
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    16A wise person is cautious and turns from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is overconfident.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind.

  • Job 18:18
    69%

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.