Proverbs 2:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For her house sinks down to death and her paths to the spirits [of the dead].

American Standard Version (1901)

For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

Common English Bible

Her house sinks down to death, and her paths go down to the shadowy dead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.

Proverbs 2:18 Cross References

Genesis 49:15

he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a slave at forced labor.

Proverbs 1:32

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 9:18

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

Ephesians 5:5

Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.