Proverbs 4:15
13 Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
16 For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
- KJV
- Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
- WEB
- Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
- ASV
- Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
- DARBY
- avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
- BLB
- Avoid it! Do not pass onto it; turn aside from it and pass by.
- ÅB
- Sky den, følg den ikke, vik fra den og gå forbi!
- OTB
- Unngå den, reis ikke på den; vend deg bort fra den og fortsett på din vei.
- B1930
- Sky den, følg den ikke, vik fra den og gå forbi!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
Read in contextJob 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from every form of evil.
Read in contextExodus 23:7
Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
Read in contextJob 11:14
if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
Read in contextProverbs 5:8
Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
Read in contextIsaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
Read in contextProverbs 6:5
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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