Proverbs 5:23

World English Bible (2000)

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:21 : 21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
  • Job 36:12 : 12 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
  • 2 Pet 2:15-22 : 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 15:10
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  • Prov 21:16
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    16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • Prov 10:17
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    17 He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

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    21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

  • Prov 1:31-32
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    31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

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  • Prov 19:2-3
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  • Prov 15:5
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    5 A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

  • Prov 16:22
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    22 Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26 When 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 14:7-8
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    7 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

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  • Job 36:12
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    12 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

  • Eccl 10:3
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    3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

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

  • Prov 9:6
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    6 Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

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

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

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17 Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

  • Prov 29:1
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    1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

  • Prov 17:25
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    25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Job 5:2
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    2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

  • Prov 22:15
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    15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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    7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Prov 16:25
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    25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

  • Ezek 3:20
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    20 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

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    21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

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    27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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    2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

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    18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.