Proverbs – Avoiding Evil & the Wicked (KJV)
- Christopher Leach
- Mar 20
- 3 min read

1:10 – My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
1:11 – If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
1:12 – Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
1:13 – We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
1:14 – Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
1:15 – My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
1:16 – For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
1:17 – Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
1:18 – And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
1:19 – So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
1:24 – Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
1:25 – But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
1:26 – I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
1:27 – When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
1:29 – For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
1:30 – They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
1:31 – Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
1:32 – For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
2:9 – Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
2:12 – To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
2:13 – Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14 – Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
2:15 – Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
2:22 – But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
4:14 – Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
4:15 – Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
4:16 – For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
4:17 – For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
4:19 – The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
6:12 – A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
6:13 – He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
6:14 – Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
6:15 – Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
6:16 – These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
6:17 – A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18 – An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
6:19 – A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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