Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² rescuing you from the way of evil—
from the one who says perverse things,
¹³ from those who abandon the right paths
to walk in ways of darkness,
¹⁴ from those who enjoy doing evil
and celebrate perversion,

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;
they don’t know what makes them stumble.

John 3:19-20

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

The man who strays from the way of wisdom
will come to rest
in the assembly of the departed spirits.

Job 24:13-16

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.

Psalm 14:3

All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are malicious and deceptive;
he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

Psalm 82:5

They do not know or understand;
they wander in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has practiced.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

“Now, son of man, say to your people: The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him on the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked person cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person won’t be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

Matthew 12:43-45

“When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any.

John 1:6

There was a man named John
who was sent from God.

John 2:9-11

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

John 12:35

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

Romans 1:21

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

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

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, became companions with the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.