Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² to deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks wicked things; ¹³ those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, ¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversities of the wicked;

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

Proverbs 21:16

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

Job 24:13-16

They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths.

Psalm 14:3

All have gone aside, together they are filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

Psalm 82:5

They neither know nor will understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

When a righteous one turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done, he shall die.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

Therefore, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. As for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those drawing back from Jehovah, and who have not sought Jehovah, nor asked for Him.

Matthew 12:43-45

When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks through dry places seeking rest, and finds none.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water which was made wine (and did not know where it was from, but the servants who drew the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.

John 12:35

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness come upon you. For he who walks in darkness does not know where he goes.

Romans 1:21

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

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

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse 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 they went out so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us.