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Proverbs 5:23
Proverbs 5:23 is verse 23 of Proverbs chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
King James Version
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
World English Bible
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
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Proverbs 5:21–23 · Berean Standard Bible
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
23 He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
Job 4:21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
Job 36:12But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
2 Peter 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
2 Peter 2:16But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
2 Peter 2:17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
2 Peter 2:19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
2 Peter 2:20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
2 Peter 2:21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
2 Peter 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”