Proverbs 2:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ for her way leads down to death and her paths to the shades;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ For her house sinks down to death and her paths to the spirits [of the dead].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Her house sinks down to death, and her paths go down to the shadowy dead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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 the burden and became a slave at forced labor.

Proverbs 1:32

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

Proverbs 9:18

But they do 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 sexually immoral or impure person or one who is greedy (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, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.