Parallel Bible results for "Proverbs 2:11-21"

Proverbs 2:11-21

Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha CEBA

11 Discretion will guard you; understanding will protect you.

12 Wisdom will rescue you from the evil path, from people who twist their words.

13 They forsake the way of integrity and go on obscure paths.

14 They enjoy doing evil, rejoicing in their twisted evil.

15 Their paths are confused; they get lost on their way.

16 Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman, from the foreign woman with her slick words.

17 She leaves behind the partner of her youth; she even forgets her covenant with God.

18 Her house sinks down to death, and her paths go down to the shadowy dead.

19 All those who go to her will never return; they will never again reach the ways of the living.

20 So you should stay on the path of good people, guarding the road of the righteous.

21 Those who have integrity will dwell in the land; the innocent will remain in it.

New International Version NIV

11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

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;