Proverbs 21:16

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Summary

Proverbs 21:16

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

Wandereth

1 John 2:19

Remain

Jude 1:12

Bible References

Wandereth

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,

For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

Remain

For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,