Proverbs 4:15
Take flight from it. Do not pass close to it. Turn away and abandon it.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
In Context
14Do not delight in the paths of the impious, nor permit the way of evil-doers to please you.
Cross References
Job 11:14If you would send away from you the iniquity that is in your hand, and not let injustice remain in your tabernacle,
Proverbs 1:15My son, do not walk with them. Preclude your feet from their paths.
Proverbs 6:5Rescue yourself like a gazelle from the hand, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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.
1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain from every kind of evil.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:15-20
Cautions against Bad Company. 14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at… Read the whole commentary →