Proverbs 2:12

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rescuing you from the way of evil, from anyone who speaks perversely,

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  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived: 'Bad company corrupts good morals.'
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.'
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech.
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.
  • Prov 16:28-30 : 28 A perverse person spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. 29 A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good. 30 The one who winks with his eyes is plotting perverse things, and the one who purses his lips is bent on evil.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice. 4 No one calls for justice, and no one pleads with integrity. They rely on empty words and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity. 5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs dies, and when one is crushed, a viper hatches.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Even from among your own group, men will rise up, speaking twisted things to draw away the disciples to follow them.
  • Ps 17:4-5 : 4 Concerning what people do, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent. 5 Hold steady my steps in your paths so that my feet do not slip.
  • Ps 26:4-5 : 4 I do not sit with deceitful people, nor do I associate with hypocrites. 5 I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
  • Ps 101:4 : 4 A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not associate with evil.
  • Ps 141:4 : 4 Do not let my heart incline to an evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with those who do iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies.
  • Prov 1:10-19 : 10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. 11 If they say, 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause;' 12 Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive, whole, like those who go down to the pit; 13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder. 14 Cast your lot among us; we will all have one purse. 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths, 16 For their feet run to evil; they hasten to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain is the net spread in sight of any bird, 18 But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. 19 Such are the ways of everyone who gains unjust profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 For the devious person is an abomination to the LORD, but His confidential counsel is with the upright.
  • Prov 4:14-17 : 14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. 15 Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way. 16 For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble. 17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Leave your simple ways and live; walk in the way of understanding."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 2:13-16
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    13from those who abandon the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

    14from those who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of wickedness.

    15Their paths are crooked, and their ways are devious.

    16It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words,

  • Prov 2:11
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    11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you,

  • Ps 140:1
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    1For the director of music, a psalm of David.

  • Prov 6:24
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    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

  • Prov 2:20
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    20So you will walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Who is the person who desires life and loves many days to see good?

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the crooked; whoever guards their soul will stay far from them.

  • Prov 16:17
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    17The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and keep corrupt speech far from you.

  • Prov 4:14-15
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    14Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

    15Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way.

  • Ps 140:4
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    4They sharpen their tongues like serpents; the venom of vipers is under their lips. Selah.

  • Prov 6:12
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    12A worthless person, a man of wickedness, walks with a corrupt mouth,

  • Prov 1:15-16
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    15My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths,

    16For their feet run to evil; they hasten to shed blood.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright rescues them.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20A crooked heart will not find good, and the one with a deceitful tongue will fall into trouble.

  • Prov 4:27
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    27Do not turn to the right or to the left; keep your foot away from evil.

  • Ps 120:2
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    2LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 17:4
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    4Concerning what people do, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut off.

    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversities.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

  • Prov 11:3
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    3The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

  • Ps 101:4
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    4A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not associate with evil.

  • Prov 10:9
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    9The one who walks in integrity walks securely, but the one who perverts his ways will be found out.

  • Prov 16:29
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    29A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

  • Prov 12:2
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    2A good person obtains favor from the LORD, but a person of wicked schemes is condemned.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5To keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 28:18
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    18Whoever walks in integrity will be saved, but one who is crooked in his ways will fall into ruin.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.

  • Ps 18:26
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    26To the faithful You show Yourself faithful; to the blameless You show Yourself blameless.

  • Prov 13:15
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    15Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the treacherous leads to ruin.

  • Ps 140:11
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    11May burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into deep pits, never to rise again.

  • 2 Sam 22:27
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    27To the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the trap they have set for me and from the snares of those who do evil.

  • Ps 144:11
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    11Rescue me and save me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.

  • Prov 12:13
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    13By the sin of their lips, the wicked are trapped, but the righteous escape trouble.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14He plots evil with deceit in his heart; he constantly stirs up dissension.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Prov 22:12
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    12The eyes of the LORD watch over knowledge, but He overturns the words of the treacherous.

  • Ps 64:2
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    2Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; protect my life from the fear of the enemy.

  • Prov 11:20
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    20Those with twisted hearts are detestable to the Lord, but His delight is in those whose ways are blameless.

  • Prov 27:12
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    12The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

  • Prov 28:10
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    10Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.