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Proverbs 1:16
Proverbs 1:16 is verse 16 of Proverbs chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
King James Version
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
World English Bible
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
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Proverbs 1:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—
15 my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
16 For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
18 But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Proverbs 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.