Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things; ¹³ from those who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness 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 light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom shall abide in the congregation of the dead.

Job 24:13-16

There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Psalm 14:3

They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.

Ezekiel 18:26

When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and practiseth what is wrong, and dieth for it; in his wrong 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 the righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.

Zephaniah 1:6

and them that turn back from after Jehovah, and that do not seek Jehovah, nor inquire for him.

Matthew 12:43-45

But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find it.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

But when the feast-master had tasted the water which had been made wine (and knew not whence it was, but the servants knew who drew the water), the feast-master calls the bridegroom,

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

Romans 1:21

Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.