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Romans 3:15–16

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Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
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  1. Isaiah 59:7–8Rank 1 from verse 15
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    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

    8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  2. Proverbs 1:16Rank 2 from verse 15
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    16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  3. Proverbs 6:18Rank 3 from verse 15
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    18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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Romans 3:15

COMBINED MEANING

shed

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To pour out, spill, cast off, or cause to flow, especially blood.

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blood

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Sense 1: The bodily fluid associated with physical life. Sense 2: Life taken, bloodshed, or guilt and responsibility for it. Sense 3: Kindred, shared human descent, or natural human nature. Sense 4: The juice of grapes.

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Romans 3:16

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destruction

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The act, result, or state of destroying: ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or that which brings ruin.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

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16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

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17And the way of peace have they not known:

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