Proverbs 2:13-22 ▼

13 From those who forsake the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

14 Who are glad to do evil And they rejoice in the perversity of evil;

15 Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their tracks;

16 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words;

17 Who forsakes the close companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;

18 For her house sinks down to death And her tracks descend to the dead;

19 All who go to her will not return, And they will not reach the paths of life.

20 So that you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will dwell in the land And the blameless will remain in it;

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be torn away from it.