Proverbs 5:23 Cross References - Webster

²³ He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

²¹ Doth not their excellence which is in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.

¹² But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

¹² (81:11)But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

³² The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

¹⁵ Who have forsaken the right way, and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; ¹⁶ But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice, forbad the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. ¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that had quite escaped from them who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he brought into bondage. ²⁰ For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. ²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.