Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; ¹³ Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

John 3:19-20

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

Job 24:13-16

These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

Psalm 14:3

They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise and to do good.

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.

Zephaniah 1:6

and them that are turned back from following Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

Matthew 12:43-45

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and knew not whence it was (but the servants that had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calleth the bridegroom,

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Romans 1:21

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out , that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.