Proverbs 4:14 {15}
Good News Translation
Do not go where evil people go. Do not follow the example of the wicked.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evildoers.

Contemporary English Version
Don't follow the bad example of cruel and evil people.

New American Bible
The path of the wicked do not enter, nor walk in the way of the evil;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.

Proverbs 1:10,15 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: . . .

Proverbs 2:11,12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things: . . .

Proverbs 9:6 He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Psalm 26:4,5 I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Context
A Father's Instruction
13Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee. 14Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.15For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.…
Cross References
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Proverbs 1:15
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 4:15
For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

Proverbs 4:13
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