A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
Parallel translations
- KJV A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
- BSB A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
- NKJV A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know wickedness.
- NASB A perverse heart shall leave me; I will know no evil.
- NLT I will reject perverse ideas and stay away from every evil.
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Cross-references · 12
- Prov 11:20Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
- Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
- Prov 22:24Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
- Prov 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
- Prov 9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
- Matt 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
- 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
- 2 Cor 6:14–16Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
- Prov 3:32For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.
- Prov 2:12–15to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
- Ps 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
- 2 Cor 11:33Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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