Proverbs 2:12-20

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¹² You will not join with wicked people. You will keep away from those who speak false things. ¹³ Those people no longer follow honest ways. They live in dark places. ¹⁴ They enjoy doing wicked and evil things. ¹⁵ They only do wrong things. They are always deceiving others.

¹⁶ If you have wisdom, you will not listen to the sweet words of a prostitute. A woman who likes to have sex with many men will not deceive you. ¹⁷ That kind of woman leaves her own husband. She married him when she was young. Now she forgets what she promised to God at the time of her marriage.

¹⁸ Do not go into her house! If you do, you will be on the road to death. If you follow her, you will arrive at the home of the spirits of dead people. ¹⁹ Anybody who visits her will never return. He will never find the way back to a good life.

²⁰ If you have wisdom, you will enjoy life, as good people do. You will live as righteous people live.