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Proverbs 2:13
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
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Proverbs 2 · Read in context
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
2:2so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
2:3yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
2:4if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
2:5then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
2:6For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
2:7He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
2:8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
2:9Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
2:10For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
2:11Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
2:12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
2:13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
2:14who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
2:15who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
2:16to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
2:17who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
2:18for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
2:19None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.
2:20Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
2:21For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
2:22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
