Proverbs 4:27 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁷ Do not turn to the right or 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

Proverbs 1:15

My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path;

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the straight Is to turn away from evil; He who guards his life watches over His way.

Isaiah 1:16

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil!

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Shrink from what is wicked, cling to what is good.

Deuteronomy 12:32

“All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it.

Deuteronomy 28:14

“And do not turn aside from any of the Words which I am commanding you today, right or left, to go after other mighty ones to serve them.

Deuteronomy 5:32

“And you shall guard to do as יהוה  your Elohim has commanded you – do not turn aside, to the right or to the left.

Joshua 1:7

“Only be strong and very courageous, to guard to do according to all the Torah which Mosheh My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it right or left, so that you act wisely wherever you go.