Proverbs 12:26

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The righteous choose their companions wisely, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

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  • Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
  • Ps 18:12-13 : 12 He made darkness His covering, His canopy around Him—the dark rain clouds of the skies. 13 Out of the brightness of His presence, His clouds advanced, with hailstones and burning coals of fire.
  • Prov 12:13 : 13 By the sin of their lips, the wicked are trapped, but the righteous escape trouble.
  • Prov 17:27 : 27 The one who holds back his words has knowledge, and the one who is calm in spirit is a person of understanding.
  • Matt 5:46-48 : 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
  • Luke 6:32-36 : 32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. 34 If you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend without expecting anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
  • Jas 1:13-14 : 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God,' for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone. 14 But each person is tempted when they are drawn away and enticed by their own desire.
  • 1 Pet 2:18-21 : 18 Servants, submit yourselves with all respect to your masters, not only to those who are good and gentle but also to those who are harsh. 19 For this is commendable: if someone endures grief, suffering unjustly because of their conscience toward God. 20 What credit is it if you sin and are beaten for it, and you endure? But if you do good and suffer for it, and you endure, this is commendable before God. 21 To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow in His footsteps.
  • 2 Pet 2:18-22 : 18 For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery. 19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them. 20 For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 Of them the true proverb has come true: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to wallowing in the mud."
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
  • Rev 13:14 : 14 It deceives those who dwell on the earth by the signs it was allowed to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

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    5The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

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    29A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

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  • Prov 10:16
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    6Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in his ways and rich.

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  • Prov 29:6
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    16Better is the little that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked.

  • Ps 37:32
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    8The righteous are rescued from trouble, and the wicked take their place.

  • Prov 15:19
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    19The path of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the upright is smooth.

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  • Prov 11:18-19
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