There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.
Then Jeroboam said to himself, “Now the kingdom may well revert to the house of David.
So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to advice.
Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death.
There are those who are pure in their own eyes, yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.
“Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.
For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.
But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.