KJV King James Version
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
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Proverbs 2:18
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
WEB World English Bible
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
ASV American Standard Version
For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 2
15 Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
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1 Corinthians 6:9-11Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Proverbs 9:18But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.Proverbs 5:4-14But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.Galatians 5:19-21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Ephesians 5:5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.Revelation 22:15For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.Proverbs 7:22-27He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;Proverbs 6:26-35For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
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