Proverbs 2:13

The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹² To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; ¹³ Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness 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 light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Proverbs 21:16

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Job 24:13-16

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

Psalm 14:3

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath ceased to be wise, and to do good.

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Ezekiel 18:26

When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

Ezekiel 33:12-13

Therefore, thou son of man, say to the children of thy 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 that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

Zephaniah 1:6

And them that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.

Matthew 12:43-45

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and he findeth none.

John 1:6

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

John 2:9-11

When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was; (but the servants who drew the water knew) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

John 12:35

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Romans 1:21

Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7

Ye are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and hath departed to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Hebrews 6:4-6

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

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.