For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
Proverbs 2:18
“For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.”
— Proverbs 2:18
"Flee fornication" — Paul's advice on this temptation has no strategy section, because he says every other sin is outside the body and this one is against it. The fifteen verses below are the Bible's direct address to that situation, shown in full KJV text from Proverbs 2:18 to James 2:11.
Quick answer: The best-known verse about fornication here is Proverbs 2:18: "For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead." Proverbs 5:8 follows close behind: "Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:" Both are public-domain translations, shown in full on the cards below with a modern-English toggle.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
Proverbs 2:18
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:8
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
Proverbs 7:27
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 9:18
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth and deny justice to the oppressed. A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
Amos 2:7
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Matthew 15:19
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Mark 7:21
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:20
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
1 Corinthians 5:1
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
1 Corinthians 10:8
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Ephesians 5:3
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:7
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
James 2:11
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