Proverbs 2:12

Wisdom delivers you from the way of evil and from deceitful men. It matters because wisdom rescues us from corrupting influences.

Cross-references · 15

• 1 Cor 15:33Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
• Prov 13:20One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
• Prov 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
• 2 Cor 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Isa 59:3–5For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
• Acts 20:30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• Prov 16:28–30A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
• Ps 26:4–5I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
• Ps 17:4–5As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
• Prov 4:14–17Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
• Prov 1:10–19My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.
• Prov 3:32For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.
• Prov 9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
• Ps 141:4Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
• Ps 101:4A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

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