who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
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who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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Passages linked to Proverbs 2:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- John 3:19-20 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
- Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
- Proverbs 21:16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
- 2 Peter 2:20-22 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
- 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
- Psalms 14:3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
- Psalms 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
- Psalms 82:5 They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- Ezekiel 18:26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.
- Ezekiel 33:12-13 “You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins. When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.
- Zephaniah 1:6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
- Matthew 12:43-45 When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came out,’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”
- John 1:6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
- John 2:9-11 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!” This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
- John 12:35 Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5-7 You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
- 2 Timothy 4:10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
- Hebrews 6:4-6 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
- Job 24:13-16 “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths. The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face. In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
- Romans 1:21 Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, the word of God, which is the…
That is, the word of God, which is the only light, to follow their own fantasies which are darkness.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to…
Pro 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Ver. 13. To walk in the ways of darkness.] As thieves, drunkards, dicers, and our other solifugae, that abuse even gospel light; that put not light under a bushel, but under a dunghill; that, when they have walked themselves weary in these byways, highways to hell, sit down "in darkness, and in the shadow of death," {Luk 1:79} which posture imports, (1). Continuance there; (2). Content, as well paid of their seat. These "hate the light because their ways are evil." {Joh 3:20} The light stands in the light of their wicked ways, as the angel did in Balaam’s way to his sin.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The paths of uprightness; the way of God’s precepts.
The paths of uprightness; the way of God’s precepts.
Of darkness, i.e. of sin, which is oft called darkness, as Rom 13:12, &c.; Eph 5:11, because it comes from darkness, ignorance, and error, and loves darkness and hates light, and leads to utter darkness.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Who leave the paths of uprightness,.... Or "righteousness", or…
Who leave the paths of uprightness,.... Or "righteousness", or the "right and plain ways" (u); which the light of nature and the law of God, and especially the Gospel of Christ, direct to; and in which they have been trained up, having had a religious education; for it supposes them to have been externally in these ways, since they are said to leave them; for though persons do not easily and ordinarily leave the ways they have been brought up in, yet sometimes they do; and there are instances of it, and such generally are the worst of men;
to walk in the ways of darkness: sin, ignorance, and infidelity; in which they that walk know not where they are, nor whither they are a going, and which must be very uncomfortable as well as dangerous; in which only works of darkness are done, and which lead to blackness of darkness, the darkness of hell; a miserable choice, a sad change this! So Schultens renders it, "ways of horrid darkness".
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(u) "semitas rectas", Mercerus; "itinera recta", Piscator; "itinera planissima", Schultens.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Darkness - Of sin.
Darkness - Of sin.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain paths of uprightness--or, "plainness."
paths of uprightness--or, "plainness."
walk--habitually act;
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13-15. Who leave the paths of uprightness — A…
13-15. Who leave the paths of uprightness — A description of these evil men, needing no comment. Delighting in the frowardness, the wickedness of the wicked, is one of their worst features. Comp. Psa_50:17-18; Rom_1:32.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Who leave the paths of uprightness. Between vers. 13…
Who leave the paths of uprightness. Between vers. 13 and 15 the teacher proceeds to give a more detailed description of those who speak perversely. Who leave (, haoz"vim); literally, forsaking, but the present participle has the force of the preterite, as appears from the context. The men alluded to have already forsaken or deserted the paths of uprightness (see previous note on the word "man." The paths of uprightness (tvy twOjra , ar"khoth yosher); the same as the "right paths" of ch. 4:11. The strict meaning of the Hebrew word translated "uprightness" is "straightness," and hence it stands opposed to "perverseness" in the previous verse. Uprightness is integrity, rectitude, honest dealing. The LXX translators represent the forsaking of the paths of uprightness as a consequence resulting from walking in the ways of darkness, "O ye who have left the right ways by departing tou poreuesbai , equivalent to abeundo into the ways of darkness." Again, the ways of darkness ( ykerd, dar"chey kkoshek) are opposed to the "paths of uprightness" which rejoice in the light. Darkness includes the two ideas of
(1) ignorance and error, (Isa_9:2 Eph_5:8) and
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(2) evil deeds.
To walk in the ways of darkness, then, is to persist in a course of wilful ignorance, to reject deliberately the light of knowledge, and to work wickedness, by performing "the works of darkness (ta erga tou skutouv )," which St. Paul exhorted the Church at Rome to east away, (Rom_13:12) and by having fellowship with "the unfruitful works of darkness (ta erga ta akarpa tou skotouv )," against which the same apostle warned the Ephesians. (Eph_5:11) They are ways of darkness, because they endeavour to hide themselves from God (Isa_29:15) and from man. (Job_24:15 Job_38:13, Job_38:15) In their tendency and end they lead to the blackness of darkness forever. In Scripture darkness is associated with evil, just as light is with uprightness. (see Joh_3:19, Joh_3:20) The same association of ideas is discoverable in the dualism of the Persian system, as formulated by Zoroaster Ormuzd, the good principle, presides over the kingdom of light, while Ahriman, the principle of evil, is the ruler of the kingdom of darkness.
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