Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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Proverbs 21:16

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

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Proverbs 16:29

A violent and exceedingly covetous man entices his neighbor [to sin],
And leads him in a way that is not good.