Proverbs 21:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.”
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“The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 21:16 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
- Psalms 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- Proverbs 2:18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
- Proverbs 5:23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
- Proverbs 7:26For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
- Proverbs 9:18But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
- Proverbs 19:16He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
- Zephaniah 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
- John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
- Ephesians 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
- Hebrews 6:4It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
- Hebrews 10:26If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
- Hebrews 10:38But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
- 2 Peter 2:21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
- 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
- Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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