Proverbs 14:12
There are some kinds of behavior [MET] that some people falsely think are right, but ◄walking on those roads/continually doing those things► causes those people to die.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
In Context
13Sometimes when people laugh, they are really sad, and when they stop laughing, they are still sad.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:26Then Jeroboam said to himself, “If my people continue to go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to Yahweh at the temple there, soon they will again become loyal to Rehoboam, the king of Judah [DOU], and they will kill me.”
Proverbs 12:15Foolish people always think that what they are doing is right; wise people heed other people when they give them good advice.
Proverbs 30:12Some people think that they are perfect, but really they have never been cleansed from their guilt for committing disgusting sins.
Luke 13:24Therefore, try hard to enter that narrow doorway, because I tell you that many people will try to enter heaven by some other way, but they will not be able to get in.
Galatians 6:3Keep in mind that those who refuse to help others because they think that they are more important than other people, although they are not really more important, are deceiving themselves.
James 1:22Do what God commands in his message. Do not only listen to it, because people who only listen to it and do not obey it are wrong when they think that God will save them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:12
11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. Note, 1. Sin is the ruin of great families: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be overthrown, shall be brought to poverty and disgrace, and at length be extinct. His hope for heaven, the house on which he leans, shall not stand, but fail in the storm; the deluge that comes will sweep it away. 2. Righteousness is the rise and stability even of mean families: Even the tabernacle of the… Read the whole commentary →