Proverbs 2:15

World English Bible (2000)

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.
  • Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
  • Isa 30:8-9 : 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh; 10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." 12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it; 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
  • Isa 59:8 : 8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
  • Deut 32:5 : 5 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

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    14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

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    12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

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    3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

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    20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

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    32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

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