Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false; ¹³ Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads; ¹⁴ Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

John 3:19-20

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

Proverbs 21:16

The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

Job 24:13-16

Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

Psalm 14:3

They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Psalm 36:3

In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

Ezekiel 18:26

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.

Zephaniah 1:6

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

Matthew 12:43-45

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

After tasting the water which had now become wine, the master of the feast (having no idea where it came from, though it was clear to the servants who took the water out) sent for the newly-married man,

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

Romans 1:21

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.