Proverbs 15:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ For the wise the path of life leads upward, in order to avoid Sheol below.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ The way of life is above to the wise, That he may depart from hell beneath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ The path of the wise leads upward to life, that he may avoid [the gloom] in the depths of Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead). [Phil. 3:20; Col. 3:1, 2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Common English Bible

²⁴ For those with insight, life is an upward path, avoiding the grave below.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ The path of life is for the wise above, so that he may turn away from the end of Hell.

Proverbs 15:24 Cross References

Psalm 16:11

You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Philippians 3:20

But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 7:14

For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Jeremiah 21:8

And to this people you shall say: Thus says the Lord: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.

Proverbs 23:14

If you beat them with the rod, you will save their lives from Sheol.

Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.

Proverbs 2:18

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

Proverbs 9:8

Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke the wise, and he will love you.

Psalm 139:24

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled by my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.