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Proverbs 14:12

Proverbs 14:12 is verse 12 of Proverbs chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Proverbs 14:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

13 Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

14 The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.

Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

Matthew 7:13
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Luke 13:24
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Romans 6:21
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

Galatians 6:3
If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

James 1:22
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.