Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
KJV
pedes enim illorum ad malum currunt, et festinant ut effundant sanguinem.
Vulgate
For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
ASV
כִּ֣י רַ֭גְלֵי/הֶם לָ/רַ֣ע יָר֑וּצוּ וִֽ֝/ימַהֲר֗וּ לִ/שְׁפָּךְ דָּֽם
Hebrew
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
ו
v
noun · 247×
וֹ
v
noun · 356×
יְמַהֵ֣ר
ymhr
verb · 64×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×
רָצִ֔ים
rtsym
verb · 104×
שְׁפָךְ
shpk
verb · 115×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Sam 17:1 — Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
- Acts 23:15 — Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come ne
- Exod 1:22 — And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
- Isa 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
- Isa 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
- John 13:27 — And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
- Num 22:40 — And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
- Prov 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- Prov 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- Prov 6:18 — An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
- Prov 6:18 — An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
- Prov 11:19 — As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
- Prov 19:2 — Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
- Rom 3:5 — But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
- Rom 3:15 — Their feet are swift to shed blood: