Proverbs 1:19
These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
20Wisdom sings aloud in passages, and in the broad places speaks boldly.
Cross References
Joshua 7:25And Joshua said to Achar, Why have you destroyed us? the Lord destroy you + 7:25 Gr. as also today. as at this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones.
2 Kings 5:20And Giezi the servant of Elisaie said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naiman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought: as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him.
Psalms 7:16His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown. 1
Proverbs 23:3desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
Ecclesiastes 5:13And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and the man begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Micah 2:1They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →