Proverbs 1:16

World English Bible (2000)

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:18 : 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are 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; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. 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.

    16Destruction and misery are in their ways.

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    6Their 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.

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

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    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Prov 6:17-18
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    17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

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    17For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

    18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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    10My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

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  • Prov 2:12-15
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    12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

    13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

    14who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

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  • Prov 4:14-17
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    14Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

    15Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

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  • Prov 4:26-27
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    26Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

    27Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

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

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    26For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

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    9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

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    29A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

  • Mic 7:3
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    5Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

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    7The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

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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.