Stop your foolish ways, and you will live; take the road of understanding.
Spend time with the wise and you will become wise, but the friends of fools will suffer.
I am guiding you in the way of wisdom, and I am leading you on the right path.
“Try hard to enter through the narrow door, because many people will try to enter there, but they will not be able.
“Leave those people, and be separate, says the Lord. Touch nothing that is unclean, and I will accept you.”
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying: “Come out of that city, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive the disasters that will come to her.
Peter warned them with many other words. He begged them, “Save yourselves from the evil of today’s people!”
If you live wisely, you will live a long time; wisdom will add years to your life.
Those who find me find life, and the Lord will be pleased with them.
Get away from me, you who do evil, so I can keep my God’s commands.
Listen to me, daughter; look and pay attention. Forget your people and your father’s family.
Whoever accepts correction is on the way to life, but whoever ignores correction will lead others away from life.
Listen, my child, and be wise. Keep your mind on what is right.
Then they will live by my rules and obey my laws and keep them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
“ ‘My servant David will be their king, and they will all have one shepherd. They will live by my rules and obey my laws.