Devine Scripture

Proverbs 2:13

Proverbs chapter 2 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

Context

v.12To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

v.13This passage

v.14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 18:26

    When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

  • Proverbs 4:19

    The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • Zephaniah 1:6

    and them that are turned back from following Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

  • Proverbs 21:16

    The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • Job 24:13

    These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:5

    for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;