Proverbs 4:15
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to 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.
Compare
- 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
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Read in contextJob 22:23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
Read in contextExodus 23:7
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Read in contextJob 11:14
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Read in contextProverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Read in contextIsaiah 33:15
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Read in contextProverbs 6:5
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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