Proverbs 4:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Avoid it, pass not by it, Turn from it, and pass away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Avoid it, do not go on it; turn from it and pass on.

American Standard Version (1901)

Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

Common English Bible

Avoid it! Don’t turn onto it; stay off of it and keep going!

Catholic Public Domain Version

Take flight from it. Do not pass close to it. Turn away and abandon it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.

Proverbs 4:15 Cross References

Job 11:14

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness reside in your tents.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored, if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Proverbs 1:15

my child, do not walk in their way; keep your foot from their paths,

Proverbs 24:1

Do not envy the wicked, nor desire to be with them,

Proverbs 4:14

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evildoers.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 6:5

save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Isaiah 33:15

Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly, who despise the gain of oppression, who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it, who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed and shut their eyes from looking on evil,

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness; rather, expose them.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

abstain from every form of evil.