Proverbs 2:18
16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
19 None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
20 So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
- KJV
- For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
- WEB
- for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
- ASV
- For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
- DARBY
- for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;
- BLB
- For her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the Rephaim.
- ÅB
- for hennes hus synker ned i døden, og hennes veier bærer ned til dødningene;
- OTB
- For hennes hus fører ned til døden, og hennes stier til de dødes ånder.
- B1930
- for hennes hus synker ned i døden, og hennes veier bærer ned til dødningene;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
Read in contextProverbs 9:18
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Read in contextGalatians 5:19–21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Read in contextRevelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Read in contextEphesians 5:5
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Read in contextProverbs 5:4–14
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
Read in contextProverbs 7:22–27
He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
Read in contextProverbs 6:26–35
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
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