Proverbs 14:27 Cross References - NSB

²⁷ Respect for Jehovah is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

⁵ The cords of the grave surrounded me. The snares of death confronted me.

¹⁰ Wisdom enters your heart. Knowledge gives you pleasure. ¹¹ Discretion will protect you. Understanding will watch over you. ¹² It will deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things. ¹³ Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness? ¹⁴ Who rejoice in doing evil? They delight in the perversity of the wicked. ¹⁵ The wicked are crooked. They are devious in their ways. ¹⁶ You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk. ¹⁷ She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God. ¹⁸ If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the dead.

¹⁴ The law of the wise is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the wicked. He who guards his life will stay far away from them.

²⁶ I find what was worse than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape from her. But she will capture the sinner.

⁶ He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge. Respect for Jehovah is the key to this treasure.

⁶ And he said to me: »It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who thirsts from the fountain of the water of life freely.