There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that listens to counsel is wise.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience.
But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.