Proverbs 4:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:7 : 7 Keep your distance from a false charge– do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.
  • Job 11:14 : 14 if iniquity is in your hand– put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.
  • Job 22:23 : 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,
  • Prov 5:8 : 8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
  • Prov 6:5 : 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others–
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Stay away from every form of evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:13-14
    2 verses
    89%

    13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

    14Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    84%

    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

    16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

  • Prov 4:24-27
    4 verses
    82%

    24Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

    25Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

    26Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

    27Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

  • Prov 5:6-8
    3 verses
    79%

    6Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.

    7So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

    8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

  • Prov 7:25
    78%

    25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;

  • Prov 16:17
    77%

    17The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life.

  • Prov 2:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.

    19None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.

    20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 22:5
    76%

    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

  • Ps 34:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13Then make sure you don’t speak evil words or use deceptive speech!

    14Turn away from evil and do what is right! Strive for peace and promote it!

  • Prov 1:10
    76%

    10Admonition to Avoid Easy but Unjust Riches My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!

  • Prov 2:12-13
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    12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

    13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

  • Prov 4:16
    75%

    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Prov 22:25
    74%

    25lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

  • Job 22:15
    74%

    15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

  • Prov 9:6
    74%

    6Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

  • Prov 4:19
    74%

    19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

  • 1 Sam 12:21
    73%

    21You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.

  • Prov 6:24
    73%

    24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

  • 1 Pet 3:11
    73%

    11And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

  • Prov 3:7
    73%

    7Do not be wise in your own estimation; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

  • Prov 2:15
    73%

    15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Ps 101:4
    72%

    4I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; I will not permit evil.

  • Prov 24:18
    72%

    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

  • Ps 141:4
    72%

    4Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.

  • Prov 3:31
    72%

    31Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose any of his ways;

  • Isa 30:11
    72%

    11Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”

  • Ps 28:3
    72%

    3Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

  • Prov 24:1
    72%

    1Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them;

  • Prov 25:17
    72%

    17Don’t set foot too frequently in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

  • Prov 7:8
    72%

    8He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house

  • Ps 55:11
    72%

    11Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

  • Prov 4:5
    72%

    5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

  • Prov 15:24
    72%

    24The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 15:19
    72%

    19The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

  • Ps 37:27
    72%

    27Turn away from evil! Do what is right! Then you will enjoy lasting security.

  • Prov 10:17
    71%

    17The one who heeds instruction is on the way to life, but the one who rejects rebuke goes astray.

  • Prov 16:29
    71%

    29A violent person entices his neighbor, and then leads him down a path that is terrible.

  • Ps 119:115
    71%

    115Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.