¹² to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who 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,

Phrases

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Cross References

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 condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

Job 24:13-16

These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

Psalm 14:3

They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

Psalm 82:5

They know not, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in it, in his iniquity that he has done, he shall die.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

And thou, son of man, say to the sons of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. And as for the wickedness of the wicked man, he shall not fall by it in the day that

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who are turned back from following LORD, and those who have not sought LORD, nor inquired after him.

Matthew 12:43-45

But when the unclean spirit goes forth out of the man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finds it not.

John 1:6

A man came to be who was sent from God, his name was John.

John 2:9-11

And when the feast-ruler tasted the water that became wine, and had not known from where it was (but the helpers who drew the water had known), the feast-ruler called the bridegroom,

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. And he who walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.

Romans 1:21

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

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 the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and who tasted of the heavenly gift, and who became partakers of Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but--so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.