Proverbs 2:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ So may you walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the [consistently] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God).

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

Common English Bible

²⁰ So you should stay on the path of good people, guarding the road of the righteous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.

Proverbs 2:20 Cross References

Psalm 119:115

Go away from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Psalm 119:63

I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts.

Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 4:11

I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Proverbs 8:20

I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not become sluggish but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.