Proverbs 1:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:18 : 18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Rom 3:14-16
    3 verses
    90%

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

    16Ruin and misery `are' in their ways.

  • Isa 59:6-8
    3 verses
    88%

    6Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works `are' works of iniquity, And a deed of violence `is' in their hands.

    7Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.

    8A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

  • Prov 1:15
    84%

    15My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

  • Prov 6:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

    18A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

  • Prov 1:17-19
    3 verses
    80%

    17Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

    18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

    19So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

  • Prov 1:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

    11If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

  • Prov 2:12-15
    4 verses
    76%

    12To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

    13Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

    14Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

    15Whose paths `are' crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

  • Prov 4:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

    14Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

    15Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

    16For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.

    17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

  • Prov 24:2
    75%

    2For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

  • Prov 19:2
    75%

    2Also, without knowledge the soul `is' not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.

  • Prov 4:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways `are' established.

    27Incline not `to' the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

  • Hos 4:2
    74%

    2Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

  • Mic 2:1
    74%

    1Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

  • Jer 5:26
    73%

    26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

  • Isa 3:9
    73%

    9The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

  • Prov 16:29
    73%

    29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

  • Mic 7:3
    73%

    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Prov 5:5
    73%

    5Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

  • Isa 59:3
    73%

    3For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

  • Ps 58:2
    73%

    2Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

  • Ps 56:6
    72%

    6They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

  • Prov 6:14
    72%

    14Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

  • Job 18:8
    72%

    8For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

  • Prov 11:19
    72%

    19Rightly `is' righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil -- for his own death.

  • Job 22:15
    72%

    15The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?

  • Ps 55:15
    72%

    15Desolations `are' upon them, They go down `to' Sheol -- alive, For wickedness `is' in their dwelling, in their midst.

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

  • Eccl 8:11
    72%

    11Because sentence hath not been done `on' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

  • Eccl 5:1
    72%

    1Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.

  • Prov 28:17
    72%

    17A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

  • Prov 16:17
    72%

    17A highway of the upright `is', `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

  • Prov 22:5
    72%

    5Thorns -- snares `are' in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

  • Ps 94:21
    72%

    21They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

  • Prov 21:7
    72%

    7The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

  • Ps 9:15
    71%

    15Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.