Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

New American Standard Bible

Do not turn to the right nor to the left;
Turn your foot from evil.

King James Version

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Holman Bible

Don’t turn to the right or to the left;
keep your feet away from evil.

International Standard Version

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

A Conservative Version

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left. Remove thy foot from evil.

American Standard Version

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.

Amplified


Do not turn away to the right nor to the left [where evil may lurk];
Turn your foot from [the path of] evil.

Darby Translation

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil

King James 2000

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not swerve right or left; remove your foot from evil.

Modern King James verseion

Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Turn not aside, neither to the righthand nor to the left; but withhold thy foot from evil.

NET Bible

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

New Heart English Bible

Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

The Emphasized Bible

Decline not, to the right hand or to the left, - Turn away thy foot from wickedness.

Webster

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

World English Bible

Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

Youngs Literal Translation

Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
not to the right hand
ימין 
Yamiyn 
Usage: 139

nor to the left
שׂמאל שׂמאול 
S@mo'wl 
Usage: 54

שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

רגל 
Regel 
Usage: 247

Context Readings

Staying The Course

26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered. 27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:32

Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.

Deuteronomy 28:14

Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.

Joshua 1:7

Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.

Deuteronomy 12:32

You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

Isaiah 1:16

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

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