Proverbs 4:15
Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 23:7 : 7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.
- Job 11:14 : 14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;
- Job 22:23 : 23 If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
- Prov 5:8 : 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
- Prov 6:5 : 5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
- Isa 33:15 : 15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
- Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
- 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Keep from every form of evil.
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6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.
8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
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25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
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18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
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13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.
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115 Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.