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Proverbs 14:12

There is a way that people think is right, but it leads only to death.

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.
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.
THE MESSAGE
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.
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

12 There is a way that people think is right, but it leads only to death.

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 history of Terah's family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot.
Genesis 12:5
He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the slaves, and all the other things he had gotten in Haran. Then he and his group moved to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 14:9
They fought against King Kedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Babylonia, and King Arioch of Ellasar. So there were four kings fighting against five.
Genesis 14:11
So Kedorlaomer and his armies took everything that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah owned. They took all their food and clothing and left.
Genesis 14:12
Lot, the son of Abram's brother, was living in Sodom, and they captured him. They also took everything he owned and left.
Genesis 14:13
One of the men who had escaped went to Abram the Hebrew and told him what happened. Abram was camped near the trees of Mamre the Amorite. Mamre, Eshcol, and Aner had made an agreement to help each other, and they had also signed an agreement to help Abram.
Genesis 14:17
Then Abram went home after he defeated Kedorlaomer and the kings with him. On his way home, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh. (This is now called King's Valley.)
Genesis 14:19
He blessed Abram and said, "Abram, may you be blessed by God Most High, the one who made heaven and earth.
Numbers 16:26
Moses warned the people, "Move away from the tents of these evil men. Don't touch anything that belongs to them! If you do, you will be destroyed because of their sins."
Job 9:23
Is it God who laughs when a disaster kills innocent people?

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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