Parallel Bible results for "proverbs 2:12-22"

Proverbs 2:12-22

Revised Standard Version RSV

12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,

13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;

15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

16 You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,

17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;

19 none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.

20 So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

New International Version NIV

12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,

13 who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.

18 Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.