Proverbs 4:15
Stay away from those roads; turn aside and walk on other roads;
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
In Context
Cross References
Job 11:14If you have done evil things, stop doing them; and do not allow any people in your house to do wicked things.
Proverbs 1:15My son, do not accompany them! Do not walk on the roads with them!
Proverbs 6:5Save yourself, like a deer that escapes from a deer hunter or like a bird that flees from a bird hunter.
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,
1 Thessalonians 5:22Do not obey any kind of evil message.
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 →