Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
BSB
ASV
For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
KJV
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
ON HOLY BAPTISM, ORATION 40:39 (390)
It is good for the … feet … that they be not swift to shed blood or to run to evil, but that they be prompted to run to the gospel and the prize of the high calling, and to receive Christ who washes and cleanses them.
A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent . . . not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
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Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
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Proverbs 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
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Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
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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.
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I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now…
