Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² [in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things-- ¹³ those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness, ¹⁴ those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

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

John 3:19-20

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

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest.

Job 24:13-16

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

Psalm 14:3

All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

Psalm 82:5

They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and he does injustice, then he will die because of them; because of his injustice that he did he will die!

Ezekiel 33:12-13

"So you, son of man, say to {your people} [that] the righteousness of the righteous shall not save him in the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked {will not cause him to stumble} on the day of his returning from his wickedness; and [the] righteous will not be able to live by it on the day when he returns to his sin.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turned back from {following} Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him."

Matthew 12:43-45

"Now whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find [it].

John 1:6

A man came, sent from God, {whose name was} John.

John 2:9-11

Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from--but the servants who had drawn the water knew--the head steward summoned the bridegroom

John 12:35

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And 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, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For [it is] impossible [concerning] those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, [after they] have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these [things] [and] succumb to [them], 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 remained with us. But [they went out], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.