Proverbs 1:15
My son, do not walk with them. Preclude your feet from their paths.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
In Context
14Cast your lot with us. One purse will be for us all.”
16For their feet rush to evil, and they hurry to shed blood.
Cross References
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.
Proverbs 4:14Do not delight in the paths of the impious, nor permit the way of evil-doers to please you.
Proverbs 4:27Turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left; yet turn your foot away from evil. For the Lord knows the ways that are on the right, and truly, those that are on the left are perverse. But he himself will make your courses straight. Then your journey will advance in peace.
Proverbs 9:6Leave behind childishness. And live and walk by the ways of prudence.”
Isaiah 33:15The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →