Verse 12

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 He who walks with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
  • Prov 16:28-30 : 28 A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. 29 A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into a way that is not good. 30 He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
  • Ps 17:4-5 : 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.
  • Ps 26:4-5 : 4 I have not sat with false persons, nor will I go in with hypocrites. 5 I have hated the congregation of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
  • Ps 101:4 : 4 A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
  • Ps 141:4 : 4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works 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 lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit; 13 We shall find all kinds of precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; 14 Throw in your lot with us; let us all have one purse," 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. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse person is an abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
  • Prov 4:14-17 : 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. 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.