Proverbs 22:5
Good News Translation
If you love your life, stay away from the traps that catch the wicked along the way.

New Revised Standard Version
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; the cautious will keep far from them.

Contemporary English Version
Crooks walk down a road full of thorny traps. Stay away from there!

New American Bible
Thorns and snares are on the path of the crooked; those who would safeguard their lives will avoid them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.

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Proverbs 13:15 Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.

Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.

Joshua 23:13 Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you.

Job 18:8 For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Psalm 18:26,27 And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted. . . .

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Proverbs 13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.

Proverbs 16:17 The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way.

Proverbs 19:16 He that keepeth the commandment, keepeth his own soul: but he that neglecteth his own way, shall die.

Psalm 91:1 The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.

1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not.

Jude 1:20,21 But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, . . .

Context
A Good Name
4The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life. 5Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.6It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.…
Cross References
Proverbs 15:19
The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.

Proverbs 22:4
The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.

Proverbs 29:6
A snare shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.

Proverbs 22:4
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