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%

    14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

    15 Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

    16 Ruin and misery `are' in their ways.

  • Isa 59:6-8
    3 verses
    88%

    6 Their 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.

    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.

    8 A 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.

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

  • Prov 6:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

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

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

  • Prov 1:17-19
    3 verses
    80%

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

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

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

  • Prov 1:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

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

    11 If 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%

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 4:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

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

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

    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.

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

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

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

  • Prov 4:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

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

  • 1 Wo `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.

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

  • 9 The 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.

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

  • 3 On 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 11 Because 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.

  • 1 Keep 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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