Proverbs 21:16

World English Bible (2000)

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead. 19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
  • Prov 7:26-27 : 26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
  • Eph 2:1 : 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
  • Heb 10:26-27 : 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
  • 2 Pet 2:21-22 : 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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  • Prov 15:21
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    21Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 14:12
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    12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

  • Prov 16:25
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    25There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

  • Prov 9:6
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    6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

  • Prov 19:15-16
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    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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  • Prov 10:17
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    17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

  • Prov 15:10
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    10There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

  • Prov 21:17
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    17He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

  • Prov 2:18-20
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    18for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

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  • Prov 13:20
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    20One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

  • Prov 12:28
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    28In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • Prov 10:9
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    9He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

  • Prov 1:32
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    32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

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    2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

  • Prov 16:17
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    17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

  • Prov 13:14-15
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    14The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

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  • Prov 16:22
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    22Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

  • Prov 19:8
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    8He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

  • Job 21:32
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    32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Prov 28:10-11
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    10Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

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  • Prov 14:6-8
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    18But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

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    8Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

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  • Prov 3:13
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    16A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

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    14Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

    15Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

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    24A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

  • Prov 28:18
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    18Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.