Proverbs 2:12

New International Reader's Version

Wisdom will save you from the ways of evil men. It will save you from men who twist their words.

Cross References

Psalm 101:4

I will stay away from those whose hearts are twisted. I won’t have anything to do with what is evil.

Psalm 141:4

Don’t let my heart be drawn to what is evil. Don’t let me join with people who do evil. Don’t let me eat their fancy food.

Proverbs 10:32

Those who do right know the proper thing to say. But those who do wrong speak only twisted words.

Proverbs 13:20

Walk with wise people and become wise. A companion of foolish people suffers harm.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange sights. Your mind will imagine weird things.

Proverbs 28:26

Those who trust in themselves are foolish. But those who live wisely are kept safe.

Proverbs 3:32

The Lord really hates sinful people. But he makes honest people his closest friends.

Proverbs 6:12

An evil troublemaker goes around saying twisted things with his mouth.

Proverbs 8:13

To have respect for the Lord is to hate evil. I hate pride and bragging. I hate evil ways and twisted words.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave your childish ways and you will live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

Acts 20:30

Even men from your own people will rise up and twist the truth. They want to get the believers to follow them.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Don’t let anyone fool you. “Bad companions make a good person bad.”

2 Corinthians 6:17

So, “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch anything that is not pure and ‘clean.’ Then I will receive you.” (Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41)