Proverbs 2:13-22 ▼

13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

14 Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the frowardness of evil;

15 Who are crooked in their ways, And perverse in their paths;

16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;

17 That forsaketh the lord of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God.

18 For her house sinketh down unto death, And her paths unto the shades;

19 None that go unto her return, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life;

20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the whole-hearted shall remain in it.

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.