Proverbs 1:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, And make haste to shed blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ because their feet run to evil; they hurry to spill blood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For their feet rush to evil, and they hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:16 Cross References

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation ard destruction are in their paths.

Proverbs 6:18

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, Feet that be swift in running to mischief;

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

1 Samuel 19:10

And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:

Proverbs 6:17

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood: But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Genesis 37:20

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.