Proverbs 1:8-19 - Lecture Against Gang Behavior

⁸ My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: ⁹ For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck. ¹⁰ My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. ¹¹ If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; ¹² Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; ¹³ Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; ¹⁴ Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: ¹⁵ My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: ¹⁶ For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. ¹⁷ Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: ¹⁸ And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. ¹⁹ Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.