A moment in scripture
Proverbs 1:19
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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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The surrounding passage
- Proverbs 1:17
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
- Proverbs 1:18
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
- Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
- Proverbs 1:21
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.