What does Proverbs 1:18 mean?

Proverbs 1:18 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Proverbs 1:18 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

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