Proverbs 9:6
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
BSB
ASV
Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.
KJV
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
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.
Through
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.”
leads to
Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
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Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
leads to
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?
I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
