Proverbs 4:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

Proverbs 4:27 Cross References

Proverbs 1:15

my son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their paths;

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; he who guards his way preserves his life.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings 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;

Deuteronomy 12:32

“Everything that I command you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to it or take from it.

Deuteronomy 28:14

and if you do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deuteronomy 5:32

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

Joshua 1:7

Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.