There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Judges 17:13 - Revised Standard Version Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then said Micah, Now I know that the Lord will favor me, since I have a Levite to be my priest. American Standard Version (1901) Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Common English Bible And Micah said to himself, Now I know that the LORD will give me good things, because a Levite has become my priest. Catholic Public Domain Version saying: "Now I know that God will be good to me, since I have a priest from the stock of the Levites." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the race of the Levites. |
There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
He answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’ ”
They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
And Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in; for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.
And he said, “You take my gods which I made, and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, ‘What ails you?’ ”