Proverbs 2:12
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
BSB
ASV
To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
KJV
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
The man that speaketh froward things - תהפכות tahpuchoth, things of subverston; from תפך taphach, to turn or change the course of a thing. Men who wish to subvert the state of things, whether civil or religious; who are seditious themselves, and wish to make others so. These speak much of liberty and oppression, deal greatly in broad assertions, and endeavor especially to corrupt the minds of youth.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
leads to
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
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Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
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Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
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2 Corinthians 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
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Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.