Proverbs 2:12-20

New Life Version

¹² You will be kept from the sinful man, and from the man who causes much trouble by what he says. ¹³ You will be kept from the man who leaves the right way to walk in the ways of darkness, ¹⁴ from the one who is happy doing wrong, and who finds joy in the way of sin. ¹⁵ His ways are not straight and are not good.

¹⁶ You will be saved from the strange woman, from the sinful woman with her smooth words. ¹⁷ She leaves the husband she had when she was young, and forgets the agreement with her God. ¹⁸ For her house goes down to death, and her steps lead to the dead. ¹⁹ None who go to her return again, and they do not find the paths of life.

²⁰ So may you walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of those who are right and good.