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 condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
• Prov 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
• Prov 21:16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
• 2 Pet 2:20–22For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
• Zeph 1:6And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
• Ps 14:3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• 1 Th 5:5–7Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
• Ps 82:5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
• John 1:6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
• Ezek 33:12–13Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
• Ezek 18:26When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• John 2:9–11When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
• Matt 12:43–45When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
• John 12:35Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
• 2 Tim 4:10For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
• Heb 6:4–6For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
• Rom 1:21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• Job 24:13–16They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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