Proverbs 2:12-22
New International Version
12 Wisdom will save(A) you from the ways of wicked men,
from men whose words are perverse,
13 who have left the straight paths
to walk in dark ways,(B)
14 who delight in doing wrong
and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(C)
15 whose paths are crooked(D)
and who are devious in their ways.(E)
16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(F)
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](G)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(H)
19 None who go to her return
or attain the paths of life.(I)
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God
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