Proverbs 4:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

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  • Prov 4:24-27
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    24Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

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    27Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

  • Prov 5:6-8
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    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Prov 16:17
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    17The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

  • Prov 2:18-20
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    19Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

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    6Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

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    19The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

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    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

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    115Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.