Proverbs 2:13

These are men who abandon uprightness to walk in darkness. It matters because it exposes the deliberate moral rebellion of the wicked.

Cross-references · 20

• John 3:19–20And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
• Prov 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
• Prov 21:16The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
• 2 Pet 2:20–22If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
• Zeph 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
• Ps 14:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
• 1 Th 5:5–7For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
• Ps 82:5They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
• John 1:6There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.
• Ezek 33:12–13Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
• Ezek 18:26If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
• John 2:9–11and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
• Matt 12:43–45When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
• John 12:35Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
• 2 Tim 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• Heb 6:4–6It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
• Rom 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
• Job 24:13–16Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

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