Proverbs 2:18
for her house leads down to death,her paths to the dead.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
In Context
17who forsakes the friend of her youth,and forgets the covenant of her God:
19None who go to her return again,neither do they attain to the paths of life:
Cross References
Proverbs 5:4But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
Proverbs 7:22He followed her immediately,as an ox goes to the slaughter,as a fool stepping into a noose.
Proverbs 7:27Her house is the way to Sheol,going down to the chambers of death.
1 Corinthians 6:9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor men who practice sexual relations with men,
Ephesians 5:5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Revelation 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices 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 →