Proverbs 1:10-19

Admonition to Avoid Easy but Unjust Riches

1:10 My child, if sinners try to entice you,

do not consent!

1:11 If they say, “Come with us!

We will lie in wait to shed blood;

we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

1:12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol,

those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

1:13 We will seize all kinds of precious wealth;

we will fill our houses with plunder.

1:14 Join with us!

We will all share equally in what we steal.”

1:15 My child, do not go down their way,

withhold yourself from their path;

1:16 for they are eager to inflict harm,

and they hasten to shed blood.

1:17 Surely it is futile to spread a net

in plain sight of any bird,

1:18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood,

they ambush their own lives!

1:19 Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly;

it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

Proverbs 4:14-15

4:14 Do not enter the path of the wicked

or walk in the way of those who are evil.

4:15 Avoid it, do not go on it;

turn away from it, and go on.

Proverbs 6:32

6:32 A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom,

whoever does it destroys his own life.

Proverbs 7:7

7:7 and I saw among the naive –

I discerned among the youths –

a young man who lacked wisdom.

Proverbs 9:6

9:6 Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live,

and proceed in the way of understanding.”

Proverbs 9:13

9:13 The woman called Folly is brash,

she is naive and does not know anything.

Proverbs 9:16

9:16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here,”

she says to those who lack understanding.

Proverbs 13:20

13:20 The one who associates with the wise grows wise,

but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Jude 1:4

1:4 For certain men have secretly slipped in among you – men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe – ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Psalms 26:4

26:4 I do not associate with deceitful men,

or consort with those who are dishonest.

Jonah 2:8

2:8 Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.

Titus 1:10-11

1:10 For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections, 1:11 who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.