Verse 4

A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not associate with evil.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:20 : 20 Those with twisted hearts are detestable to the Lord, but His delight is in those whose ways are blameless.
  • Prov 22:24 : 24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, and do not associate with one easily angered.
  • Matt 7:23 : 23 Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
  • 2 Cor 6:14-16 : 14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.'
  • 2 Cor 11:33 : 33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: 'The Lord knows those who are His,' and, 'Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.'
  • Ps 6:8 : 8 My eyes grow weak from sorrow; they fail because of all my adversaries.
  • Ps 119:115 : 115 Depart from me, evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
  • Prov 2:12-15 : 12 rescuing you from the way of evil, from anyone who speaks perversely, 13 from those who abandon the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, 14 from those who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of wickedness. 15 Their paths are crooked, and their ways are devious.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 For the devious person is an abomination to the LORD, but His confidential counsel is with the upright.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Leave your simple ways and live; walk in the way of understanding."