Proverbs 15:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ The wise man's path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.

Proverbs 15:24 Cross References

Psalm 139:24

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 16:11

Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

Proverbs 2:18

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

Proverbs 23:14

If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol.

Proverbs 4:18

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

Proverbs 5:5

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

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 7:27

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

Proverbs 9:8

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Jeremiah 21:8

“And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Matthew 7:14

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

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.

Deuteronomy 32:22

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

Philippians 3:20

But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,