Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, ¹³ From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
¹⁴ who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

John 3:19-20

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Job 24:13-16

"There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.

Psalm 14:3

They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

"And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the LORD, who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him."

Matthew 12:43-45

"When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom

John 12:35

So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Romans 1:21

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has 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 had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.