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Proverbs 2:13

Sin

11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

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;

15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

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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,

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Cross references

  • John 3:19–20

    And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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  • Proverbs 4:19

    The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

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  • 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.

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  • Proverbs 21:16

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

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  • 2 Peter 2:20–22

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

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  • John 12:35

    Then Jesus said unto 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.

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  • Ezekiel 33:12–13

    Therefore, thou son of man, say unto 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 thereby 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.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 5:5–7

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

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