Proverbs 2:13

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

Who leave {H5800} the paths {H734} of uprightness {H3476}, to walk {H3212} in the ways {H1870} of darkness {H2822};

who leave the paths of honesty to walk the ways of darkness,

from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

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

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • John 3:19 (6 votes)

    And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

  • John 3:20 (6 votes)

    For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

  • Proverbs 4:19 (5 votes)

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

  • Proverbs 21:16 (3 votes)

    ¶ The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

  • 2 Peter 2:20 (3 votes)

    For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

  • 2 Peter 2:22 (3 votes)

    But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

  • 1 John 2:19 (3 votes)

    They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.