¹² It will deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things. ¹³ From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
¹⁴ Who rejoice in doing evil? They delight in the perversity of the wicked.

Phrases

Walk in the Ways of

Way of Righteousness

Cross References

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.

John 3:19-20

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

The man who wanders from the way of understanding will remain in the congregation of the dead.

Job 24:13-16

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

Psalm 14:3

Everyone has turned away. Together they have become rotten to the core. No one, not even one person, does good things.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit and he ceased to be wise and do good.

Psalm 82:5

Wicked people do not know or understand anything. As they walk around in the dark, all the foundations of the earth shake.

Ezekiel 18:26

When a righteous person turns away from doing right and does evil things, he will die. He will die because of the evil things he has done.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

Son of man, tell the Israelites that when someone good sins, the good he has done will not save him. If an evil person stops doing evil he will not be punished, and if a good man starts sinning, his life will not be spared.

Zephaniah 1:6

The same for those who have turned back from following Jehovah, and those who have not sought Jehovah or inquired of Him.

Matthew 12:43-45

When an unclean spirit goes out of a man it passes through the desert seeking rest. It does not find it.

John 1:6

God sent a man named John. (Malachi 3:1)

John 2:9-11

The master of the feast did not know about the water turned into wine. He tasted it and called the bridegroom.

John 12:35

Jesus said to them: The light will be with you for a little while. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

Romans 1:21

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

You are all the children (sons) of light, and the children of the day. We are not of the night, not of darkness.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

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

After they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome; the last state is worse with them than the first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us.