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## Proverbs 2:21-22 in Context (Verses 18–22 KJV)
 
 [18 ](/kjv/proverbs/2/18) For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/proverbs/2/19) None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/proverbs/2/20) That thou mayest walk in the way of good *men*, and keep the paths of the righteous.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/proverbs/2/21) For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/proverbs/2/22) But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.*
 
[Proverbs 1](/kjv/proverbs/1) [Proverbs 3](/kjv/proverbs/3)

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