Proverbs 16:25
Good News Translation
What you think is the right road may lead to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death.

Contemporary English Version
Sometimes what seems right is really a road to death.

New American Bible
Sometimes a way seems right, but the end of it leads to death!

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.

Proverbs 12:26 He that neglecteth a loss for the sake of a friend, is just: but the way of the wicked shall deceive them.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.

Isaiah 28:15-19 For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected. . . .

John 7:47-49 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? . . .

John 9:40 And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said unto him: Are we also blind?

Acts 26:9 And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

Context
The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD
24Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 25There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.26The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.…
Cross References
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.

Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.

Proverbs 16:26
The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

Proverbs 16:24
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