Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

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To keep you from the way of evil and the evil man,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
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From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
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Who find joy in doing evil
And delight in the perversity of evil,

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.

John 3:19-20

This is the judgment [that is, the cause for indictment, the test by which people are judged, the basis for the sentence]: the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

A man who wanders from the way of understanding (godly wisdom)
Will remain in the assembly of the dead.

Job 24:13-16

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor stay in its paths.

Psalm 14:3

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Psalm 82:5

The rulers do not know nor do they understand;
They walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction];
All the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles of the administration of justice] are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin and dies because of it, it is for his sin which he has committed that he dies.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not save him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stagger because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness, whereas a righteous man will not be able to live because of his [previous acts of] righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’

Zephaniah 1:6

And those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And those who have not sought the Lord [as their most important need] or inquired of Him.”

Matthew 12:43-45

“Now when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it roams through waterless (dry, arid) places in search of rest, but it does not find it.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

And when the headwaiter tasted the water which had turned into wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew) he called the bridegroom,

John 12:35

So Jesus said to them, “The Light is among you [only] a little while longer. Walk while you have the Light [keep on living by it], so that darkness will not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going [he is drifting aimlessly].

Romans 1:21

For even though they knew God [as the Creator], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks [for His wondrous creation]. On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking [godless, with pointless reasonings, and silly speculations], and their foolish heart was darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We do not belong to the night nor to darkness.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, having loved [the pleasures of] this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For [it is impossible to restore to repentance] those who have once been enlightened [spiritually] and who have tasted and consciously experienced the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by [personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition has become worse for them than the first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us [seeming at first to be Christians], but they were not really of us [because they were not truly born again and spiritually transformed]; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out [teaching false doctrine], so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us.