Proverbs 2:19 “None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.”

Proverbs 2:19

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

World English Bible

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

American Standard Version

None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

Geneva Bible 1599

All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

Darby Translation

none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

Young's Literal Translation

None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

Bible in Basic English

Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

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Cross references

“None”

Ecclesiastes 7:26 Psalm 81:12 Hosea 4:14 Matthew 19:24–26 Jeremiah 13:23

Ecclesiastes 7:26 · BSB

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

Psalm 81:12 · BSB

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Hosea 4:14 · BSB

I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a peo…

Matthew 19:24–26 · BSB

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Jeremiah 13:23 · BSB

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.

“take”

Proverbs 4:18 Hebrews 6:18

Proverbs 4:18 · BSB

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Hebrews 6:18 · BSB

Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

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