Proverbs 2:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

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  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Prov 21:16 : 16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
  • Ezek 18:26 : 26 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.
  • Ezek 33:12-13 : 12 Therefore, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness, and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.
  • Matt 12:43-45 : 43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, I will return to my house from which I came out; and when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and decorated. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.
  • John 1:6 : 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
  • John 2:9-9 : 9 When the master of the banquet had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the banquet called the bridegroom, 10 And said to him, Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have drunk freely, then the inferior. But you have kept the good wine until now. 11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; for he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
  • 1 Thess 5:5-7 : 5 You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica; Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "The dog returns to his own vomit," and "the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
  • Job 24:13-16 : 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. 14 The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief. 15 The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and disguises his face. 16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
  • Ps 14:3 : 3 They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.
  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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  • Prov 2:14-15
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    84%

    14 Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

    15 Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

  • 12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

  • Prov 2:17-20
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    17 Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

    18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead.

    19 None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.

    20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

  • 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • Prov 4:14-15
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    14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

    15 Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Prov 1:15-16
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    15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

    16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • 15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

  • 17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; he who keeps his way preserves his soul.

  • 2 He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises Him.

  • 16 'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

  • 6 Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • 9 He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • 9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

  • 10 Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.

  • 8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.

  • 15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

  • Isa 59:7-8
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    7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

    8 The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

  • 18 Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

  • 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the crookedness of transgressors shall destroy them.

  • 20 Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the upright in their way are His delight.

  • 16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

  • 7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • 15 Good understanding gives favor, but the way of transgressors is hard.

  • 29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

  • 27 Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

  • 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5 The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

    6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but transgressors shall be captured by their own evil.

  • 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • 18 The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.

  • 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul shall be far from them.

  • 2 And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

  • 2 He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • 4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

  • 11 Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • 20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  • 27 Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • 3 They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.

  • 8 The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

  • 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD.