Proverbs 2:12

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Proverbs 2:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

11 Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

13 from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

14 from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

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Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Proverbs 1:12

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Proverbs 1:13

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

Proverbs 1:14

Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

Proverbs 1:15

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

Proverbs 4:14

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

Proverbs 4:15

Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”

Proverbs 13:20

He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

Psalms 17:4

As for the deeds of men— by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

Psalms 17:5

My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

Psalms 26:4

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

Psalms 26:5

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

Psalms 141:4

Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.

2 Corinthians 6:17

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

Proverbs 3:32

for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

Proverbs 8:13

To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

Proverbs 16:29

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

Proverbs 16:30

He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

Psalms 101:4

A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

Acts 20:30

Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”