Proverbs 16:25

World English Bible (2000)

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
  • Prov 12:15 : 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
  • Prov 12:26 : 26 A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 "I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
  • Isa 28:15-19 : 15 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'" 16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. 17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. 18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. 19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message."
  • John 7:47-49 : 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 49 But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
  • John 9:40 : 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 14:12-13
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    12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

    13Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

  • Prov 12:28
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    28In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

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

  • Prov 12:15
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    15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

  • Prov 11:19
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    19He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

  • Prov 21:16
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    16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • Prov 21:2
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    2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

  • Prov 16:8-9
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    8Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

    9A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

  • Prov 16:17-18
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    17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

    18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  • Prov 16:1-2
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    1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

    2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

  • Prov 19:16
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    16He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

  • Prov 15:10
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    10There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

  • Prov 2:18-20
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    18for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

    19None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

    20that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 16:24
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    24Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

  • Prov 21:8
    72%

    8The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

  • Prov 16:26
    72%

    26The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.

  • Prov 20:24
    72%

    24A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

  • Jer 10:23
    72%

    23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

  • Eccl 7:15-16
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    15All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

    16Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

  • Prov 10:16-17
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    72%

    16The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.

    17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

  • Prov 15:19
    72%

    19The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

  • Prov 11:4-5
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    72%

    4Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

    5The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

  • Prov 5:21
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    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

  • Prov 13:14-15
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    14The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

    15Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

  • Job 5:27
    71%

    27Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."

  • Prov 10:9
    71%

    9He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

  • Prov 10:2
    71%

    2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Prov 3:17
    71%

    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

  • Prov 8:36
    71%

    36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

  • Prov 5:6
    70%

    6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • Prov 19:3
    70%

    3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Prov 14:8
    70%

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Prov 14:15
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    15A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

  • Prov 12:26
    70%

    26A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

  • Prov 14:32
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    32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

  • Ps 1:6
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    6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.