Proverbs 1:15
My son, do not accompany them! Do not walk on the roads with them!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
In Context
14So, come with us! Join our group! We will share with you the things that we steal.”
16They rush to do evil deeds! They hurry to murder [MTY] people.
Cross References
Psalms 1:1God is pleased with those who do not do what [MET] wicked people advise them to do, and who do not imitate the behavior of [MET] sinful people, and who do not join in with people who ◄ridicule/sneer at► God.
Psalms 119:101I have avoided all evil behavior in order that I may obey ◄your words/what you have told us to do►.
Proverbs 4:14Do not do the things that wicked people do; do not behave like they do; do not even walk on the roads that evil people walk on [MET].
Proverbs 4:27Do not leave the straight road by turning to the left or to the right. Do only what is right and keep yourself from doing what is evil.
Proverbs 9:6◄Leave/Go away from► other foolish people, and if you do that, you will continue to live. Walk on the road that will enable you to ◄have knowledge/know what is true and what is not true►.”
Isaiah 33:15Those who act honestly and say what is right, those who do not try to become rich by ◄extortion/forcing people to give them money►, those who do not try to get bribes, those who refuse to listen to people who are planning to murder someone, those who do not join others who urge them to do what is wrong,
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 →