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Proverbs 14:12

There's a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again—it leads straight to hell. Sure, those people appear to be having a good time, but all that laughter will end in heartbreak.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Death;   Reasoning;   Self-Delusion;   Self-Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Allurements of Sin;   End of the Wicked;   Error;   Evil;   Pathway of Sin;   Righteous-Wicked;   Sin;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   Way;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Death;   Ways;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death, Eternal;   Self-Delusion;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Way;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Clean;   Way;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 21;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There is a way that seems right to a person,but its end is the way to death.
Hebrew Names Version
There is a way which seems right to a man, But in the end it leads to death.
King James Version
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
English Standard Version
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
New American Standard Bible
There is a way which seems right to a person, But its end is the way of death.
New Century Version
Some people think they are doing right, but in the end it leads to death.
New English Translation
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.
Amplified Bible
There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, But its end is the way of death.
World English Bible
There is a way which seems right to a man, But in the end it leads to death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
There is a way that seemeth right to a man: but the issues thereof are the wayes of death.
Legacy Standard Bible
There is a way which seems right to a man,But its end is the way of death.
Berean Standard Bible
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Contemporary English Version
You may think you are on the right road and still end up dead.
Complete Jewish Bible
There can be a way which seems right to a person, but at its end are the ways of death.
Darby Translation
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
Easy-to-Read Version
There is a way that people think is right, but it leads only to death.
George Lamsa Translation
There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Good News Translation
What you think is the right road may lead to death.
Lexham English Bible
There is a way that seems upright to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Literal Translation
There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There is a waye, which some men thinke to be right, but the ende therof ledeth vnto death.
American Standard Version
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.
Bible in Basic English
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
King James Version (1611)
There is a way which seemeth right vnto a man: but the end thereof are the wayes of death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
There is a way which seemeth right vnto a man: but the ende therof are the wayes of death.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it reach to the depths of hell.
English Revised Version
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli a weie is, that semeth iust to a man; but the laste thingis therof leden forth to deth.
Update Bible Version
There is a way which seems right to a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.
Webster's Bible Translation
There is a way which seemeth right to a man, but the end of it [are] the ways of death.
New King James Version
There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
New Living Translation
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
New Life Bible
There is a way which looks right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
New Revised Standard
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There is a way that enticeth a man, but, at the latter end thereof, are the ways of death!
Douay-Rheims Bible
There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.
Revised Standard Version
There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Young's Literal Translation
There is a way -- right before a man, And its latter end [are] ways of death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

Contextual Overview

12There's a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again—it leads straight to hell. Sure, those people appear to be having a good time, but all that laughter will end in heartbreak.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 12:15, Proverbs 16:25, Proverbs 30:12, Matthew 7:13, Matthew 7:14, Luke 13:24, Romans 6:21, Galatians 6:3, Ephesians 5:6, James 1:22

Reciprocal: Judges 17:6 - right Judges 17:13 - General Judges 21:25 - right Psalms 1:6 - way Psalms 119:104 - false way Proverbs 25:8 - what Luke 8:18 - seemeth to have James 1:26 - seem

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
This is the story of Terah. Terah had Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran had Lot. Haran died before his father, Terah, in the country of his family, Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 14:13
A fugitive came and reported to Abram the Hebrew. Abram was living at the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner. They were allies of Abram. When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken prisoner, he lined up his servants, all of them born in his household—there were 318 of them—and chased after the captors all the way to Dan. Abram and his men split into small groups and attacked by night. They chased them as far as Hobah, just north of Damascus. They recovered all the plunder along with nephew Lot and his possessions, including the women and the people.
Genesis 14:17
After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and his allied kings, the king of Sodom came out to greet him in the Valley of Shaveh, the King's Valley. Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine—he was priest of The High God—and blessed him: Blessed be Abram by The High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth. And blessed be The High God, who handed your enemies over to you. Abram gave him a tenth of all the recovered plunder.
Revelation 3:19
"The people I love, I call to account—prod and correct and guide so that they'll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,.... As the way of sin and wickedness does, it promising much carnal pleasure and mirth; there is a great deal of company in it, it is a broad road, and is pleasant, and seems right, but it leads to destruction; so the way of the hypocrite and Pharisee that trusts to his own righteousness, and despises others, and even the righteousness of Christ; or however does not submit to it, but tramples upon him, and counts the blood of the covenant an unholy thing, and so is deserving of sorer punishment than the profane sinner; yet on account of his good works, as he calls them, fancies himself to be in a fair way for heaven and happiness; so Popery, through the pomp and grandeur and gaudiness of worship, through the lying miracles of the priests, and the air of devotion that appears in them, seems to be a right way;

but the end thereof [are] the ways of death; which lead unto eternal death; for that is the wages of sin, let it appear in what shape it will.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A way ... - The way of the fool, the way of self-indulgence and self-will.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 14:12. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man — This may be his easily besetting sin, the sin of his constitution, the sin of his trade. Or it may be his own false views of religion: he may have an imperfect repentance, a false faith, a very false creed; and he may persuade himself that he is in the direct way to heaven. Many of the papists, when they were burning the saints of God in the flames at Smithfield, thought they were doing God service! And in the late Irish massacre, the more of the Protestants they piked to death, shot, or burnt, the more they believed they deserved of God's favour and their Church's gratitude. But cruelty and murder are the short road, the near way, to eternal perdition.


 
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