Proverbs 2:13
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
BSB
ASV
Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
KJV
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who leave the straight path, etc. Beautifully he has opposed dark ways to the straight path, because indeed the journey of right action is performed in light and leads to the joys of the supreme light. As the Lord says: Everyone who does evil hates …
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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 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of…
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Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
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If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse…
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Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
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Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the…
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.