Proverbs 4:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left; remove your foot from evil.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Don’t deviate a bit to the right or the left; turn your feet away from evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left; yet turn your foot away from evil. For the Lord knows the ways that are on the right, and truly, those that are on the left are perverse. But he himself will make your courses straight. Then your journey will advance in peace.

Proverbs 4:27 Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:32

You must therefore be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn to the right or to the left.

Joshua 1:7

Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to act in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may be successful wherever you go.

Deuteronomy 28:14

and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you today, either to the right or to the left, following other gods to serve them.

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their way preserve their lives.

Deuteronomy 12:32

You must diligently observe everything that I command you; do not add to it or take anything from it.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove your evil deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Romans 12:9

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;

Proverbs 1:15

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