Proverbs 4:27
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.
BSB
ASV
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.
KJV
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT, ORATION 2:34 (390)
We must really walk on the King's highway and take care not to turn aside from it either to the right hand or to the left, as the Proverbs say. For such is the case with our passions, and such in this matter is the task of the good shepherd, if he is to know properly the souls of his flock, and to guide them according to the methods of a pastoral care which is right and just, and worthy of our true Shepherd.
The ever-recurring image of the straight road on which no one ever loses his way represents here as elsewhere the onward course through life of the man who seeks and finds wisdom.
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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Joshua 1:7Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that…
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So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Then you will succeed, if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper…
As the LORD had commanded His servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua. That is what Joshua did, leaving nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
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Deuteronomy 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
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Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
