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Proverbs 2:13

Sin

11 Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

14 from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

15 whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

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BSB
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
KJV
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
WEB
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
ASV
Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
DARBY
[from those] who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
BLB
those abandoning the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
ÅB
fra dem som forlater rettvishets stier for å vandre på mørkets veier,
OTB
Fra dem som har forlatt rettferdighetens stier for å vandre på mørke veier,
B1930
fra dem som forlater rettvishets stier for å vandre på mørkets veier,

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • John 3:19–20

    And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

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  • Proverbs 4:19

    But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

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  • 1 John 2:19

    They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

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  • Proverbs 21:16

    The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

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  • 2 Peter 2:20–22

    If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

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  • John 12:35

    Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

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  • Ezekiel 33:12–13

    Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’

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  • 1 Thessalonians 5:5–7

    For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

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