Verse 27

The fear of the LORD is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 13:14 : 14 Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.
• Prov 22:5 : 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.
• Eccl 7:26 : 26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
• Isa 33:6 : 6 He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.
• Rev 21:6 : 6 He also said to me,“It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring of the water of life.
• Ps 18:5 : 5 The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.
• Prov 2:10-18 : 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you. 11 Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you, 12 to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, 13 who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, 14 who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil; 15 whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways; 16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words; 17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God. 18 For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.