Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² to deliver you 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;

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Proverbs 4:19

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

John 3:19-20

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works 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 its ways, nor abide in its paths.

Psalm 14:3

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. 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 do not know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 18:26

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

Ezekiel 33:12-13

"You, son of man, tell the children of your people, 'The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.'

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven't sought the LORD nor inquired after him.

Matthew 12:43-45

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

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

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Romans 1:21

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.