Proverbs 2:13-22 ▼

13 from those who abandon the right paths to walk in ways of darkness,

14 from those who enjoy doing evil and celebrate perversion,

15 whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.

16 It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,

17 who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

18 for her house sinks down to death and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

19 None return who go to her; none reach the paths of life.

20 So follow the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and those of integrity will remain in it;

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous ripped out of it.