Proverbs 5:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.

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But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

Their tent cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.’

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.

He will repay them for their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

One is commended for good sense, but a perverse mind is despised.

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.