delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”
for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!
A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.
A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.