Leave your simple ways and you will live;(A)
    walk in the way of insight.”(B)

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Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

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20 Walk with the wise and become wise,
    for a companion of fools suffers harm.(A)

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20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

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11 I instruct(A) you in the way of wisdom
    and lead you along straight paths.(B)

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11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

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24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door,(A) because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

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24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

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17 Therefore,

“Come out from them(A)
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

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Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“‘Come out of her, my people,’[a](A)
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:4 Jer. 51:45

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

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40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”(A)

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40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

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The Narrow and Wide Gates

13 “Enter through the narrow gate.(A) For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

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11 For through wisdom[a] your days will be many,
    and years will be added to your life.(A)

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  1. Proverbs 9:11 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew me

11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

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35 For those who find me(A) find life(B)
    and receive favor from the Lord.(C)

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35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

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14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
    or walk in the way of evildoers.(A)
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
    turn from it and go on your way.

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14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

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115 Away from me,(A) you evildoers,
    that I may keep the commands of my God!

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115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

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10 Listen, daughter,(A) and pay careful attention:(B)
    Forget your people(C) and your father’s house.

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10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

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