Pro 16:25 | KingComments | STEP | This proverb is identical to a verse in Proverbs 14 ( ). There this proverb is related to appearances that deceive ( ), to seeing what is before one’s eyes while the reality is different. It is relying on what you see without realizing that you are being fooled. Here the proverb is related to the way we live our life and what it turns out to be. It is about how we think about and fill in our own life versus the way God thinks about it and wants it to be lived. The way that seems straight to someone can be the way of pleasure and carefree enjoyment. We see that the one seemingly straight road, ends in countless ways of death. There is plenty of choice on that one way, but every choice on it leads to death. This need not even be about the choice to live in gross sin. If there is enough money, if one’s career can be made, if one’s family is doing well and one also gives to each his own, then a person thinks he is on the right way. Such people will be deceived. With it, it is like the man who said: ‘I climbed the ladder of success, but I discovered that it was against the wrong wall.’ Another path that may seem right to someone is that of total freedom. Give free sex space in any relationship one wants, give man the right to life and death by allowing him to commit abortion and euthanasia, and it will be said that this is the right way to and from happiness. Again, it will turn out that that way ends in death. The broad way of sin seems right because many walk on it. But it is appearance, for that way ends in death ( ). The way of death is walked by those who take their mind, their feelings or their conscience as the standard and not God’s Word. A person goes the way that is truly right only when he trusts Christ and not his own understanding, and acknowledge Him in all his ways ( ).

‏ Proverbs 16:25

The End of a Seemingly Right Way

This proverb is identical to a verse in Proverbs 14 (Pro 14:12). There this proverb is related to appearances that deceive (Pro 14:11-13), to seeing what is before one’s eyes while the reality is different. It is relying on what you see without realizing that you are being fooled. Here the proverb is related to the way we live our life and what it turns out to be. It is about how we think about and fill in our own life versus the way God thinks about it and wants it to be lived.

The way that seems straight to someone can be the way of pleasure and carefree enjoyment. We see that the one seemingly straight road, ends in countless ways of death. There is plenty of choice on that one way, but every choice on it leads to death. This need not even be about the choice to live in gross sin. If there is enough money, if one’s career can be made, if one’s family is doing well and one also gives to each his own, then a person thinks he is on the right way. Such people will be deceived. With it, it is like the man who said: ‘I climbed the ladder of success, but I discovered that it was against the wrong wall.’

Another path that may seem right to someone is that of total freedom. Give free sex space in any relationship one wants, give man the right to life and death by allowing him to commit abortion and euthanasia, and it will be said that this is the right way to and from happiness. Again, it will turn out that that way ends in death.

The broad way of sin seems right because many walk on it. But it is appearance, for that way ends in death (Mt 7:13-14). The way of death is walked by those who take their mind, their feelings or their conscience as the standard and not God’s Word. A person goes the way that is truly right only when he trusts Christ and not his own understanding, and acknowledge Him in all his ways (Pro 3:5-6).