Verse 4

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

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:20 : 20 The LORD abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight.
  • Prov 22:24 : 24 Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,
  • Matt 7:23 : 23 Then I will declare to them,‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
  • 2 Cor 6:14-16 : 14 Unequal Partners Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness? 15 And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever? 16 And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
  • 2 Cor 11:33 : 33 but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal:“The Lord knows those who are his,” and“Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”
  • Ps 6:8 : 8 Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping!
  • Ps 119:115 : 115 Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.
  • Prov 2:12-15 : 12 to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, 13 who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, 14 who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil; 15 whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 for one who goes astray is an abomination to the LORD, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”