Proverbs 2:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² To deliver you from the evil way, From the man who speaks perversities,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, From the man that speaketh froward things;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² To deliver you from the way of evil and the evil men, from men who speak perverse things and are liars,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

Common English Bible

¹² Wisdom will rescue you from the evil path, from people who twist their words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,

Proverbs 2:12 Cross References

Psalm 101:4

A perverse heart turns away from me; I do not know evil.

Psalm 141:4

Let not my heart be inclined to evil, To practise deeds of wrongness With men working wickedness, And let me not eat of their delicacies.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, But the mouth of the wrong speaks perverseness.

Proverbs 13:20

He who walks with the wise, shall be wise, But the companion of fools suffers evil.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes look on strange women, And your heart speaks perversities.

Proverbs 28:26

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely is delivered.

Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse one is an abomination to יהוה, And His secret counsel is with the straight.

Proverbs 6:12

A man of Beliyaʽ

Proverbs 8:13

“The fear of יהוה  is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave the simple ones and live, And walk in the way of understanding.

Acts 20:30

“Also from among yourselves men shall arise, speaking distorted teachings, to draw away the taught ones after themselves.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be led astray, “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you.