Proverbs 2:13 · KJV
“Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;”
— Proverbs 2:13
To deliver thee from the way of the evil {man}, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Who rejoice to do evil, {and} delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Proverbs 2 — Context
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
12To deliver thee from the way of the evil {man}, from the man that speaketh froward things;
13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14Who rejoice to do evil, {and} delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
15Whose ways {are} crooked, and {they} froward in their paths:
Cross References
John 3:19-20
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked {is} as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
2 Peter 2:20-22
For 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.
Proverbs 21:16
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
1 John 2:19
They 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.
Ezekiel 18:26
When 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.
Matthew 12:43-45
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Psalms 14:3
They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. {filthy: Heb. stinking}