Proverbs 2:18
For her house has inclined to death, || And her paths to Rephaim.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
In Context
17Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, || And has forgotten the covenant of her God.
19None going in to her return, || Nor do they reach the paths of life.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:4And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, || Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
Proverbs 7:22He is going after her straight away, he comes as an ox to the slaughter, || And as a chain to the discipline of a fool,
Proverbs 7:27The ways of Sheol—her house, || Going down to inner chambers of death!
1 Corinthians 6:9Have you not known that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
Ephesians 5:5for you know this, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
Revelation 22:15and outside [are] the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone cherishing and doing falsehood.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2:11-22
The Benefits Conferred by Wisdom. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange… Read the whole commentary →