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 3:19–20This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• Prov 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
• Prov 21:16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• 2 Pet 2:20–22For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
• Zeph 1:6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
• Ps 14:3They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
• 1 Th 5:5–7You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,
• Ps 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
• John 1:6There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
• Ezek 33:12–13You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.
• Ezek 18:26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
• John 2:9–11When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
• Matt 12:43–45When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
• John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• 2 Tim 4:10for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• Heb 6:4–6For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
• Rom 1:21Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
• Job 24:13–16“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

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