Proverbs 1:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of [self-confident] fools shall destroy them. [Isa. 32:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

Common English Bible

The immature will die because they turn away; smugness will destroy fools.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The loathing of the little ones shall destroy them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall perish them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 1:32 Cross References

Psalm 69:22

Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 14:16

The wise are cautious and turn away from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is careless.

Proverbs 2:18

for her way leads down to death and her paths to the shades;

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Proverbs 8:36

but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 8:5

O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Isaiah 66:4

so I will choose their punishments and bring upon them what they fear, because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen, but they did what was evil in my sight and chose what did not please me.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria, the notables of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel resorts!

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life but must endure God’s wrath.

Deuteronomy 28:17

“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!

Hebrews 12:8

If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.