VERSE STUDY • KJV

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Read it in 5 translations

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

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 evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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