Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, ¹³ who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, ¹⁴ who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.

John 3:19-20

Now this is the basis for judging: 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

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

Job 24:13-16

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

Psalm 14:3

Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

Psalm 36:3

The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

Psalm 82:5

They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

Ezekiel 18:26

When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

"And you, son of man, say to your people, 'The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness if he sins.'

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn their backs on the Lord and do not want the Lord's help or guidance."

Matthew 12:43-45

"When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

John 12:35

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not 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 glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

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

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

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

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.