Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things, ¹³ and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness; ¹⁴ who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over.

John 3:19-20

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the path of understanding will end up where the dead are gathered.

Job 24:13-16

"Then there are those who rebel against the light; they are not acquainted with its ways; and they don't stay on its course.

Psalm 14:3

All have turned away, together they have become corrupt; no one practices what is good, not even one.

Psalm 36:3

The words from his mouth are vain and deceptive. He has abandoned behaving wisely and doing good.

Psalm 82:5

They neither know nor understand; they walk about in the dark while all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

"When a righteous person turns from his righteous deeds and does evil, he'll die because of that evil. He'll die because of his unrighteous acts that he committed.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

"And now, Son of Man, say this to your people: "The righteousness of the righteous won't save them when they keep on committing crimes against me, the wickedness of the wicked won't keep them from remaining away when they're turning from their wickedness, and no righteous person will keep on living by their righteousness when they sin.'

Zephaniah 1:6

those who turn away from the LORD, don't seek the LORD, and never ask for his help."

Matthew 12:43-45

"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through waterless places looking for a place to rest, but finds none.

John 1:6

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

John 2:9-11

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

John 12:35

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

Romans 1:21

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness.

2 Timothy 4:10

because Demas, having fallen in love with this present world, has abandoned me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

1 John 2:19

They left us, but they were not part of us, for if they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. Their leaving made it clear that none of them was really part of us.