Proverbs 2:18-22 ▼

18 For her house leads down to death And her paths lead to the dead;

19 None who go to her return again, Nor do they regain the paths of life—

20 So you will walk in the way of good men [that is, those of personal integrity, moral courage and honorable character], And keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright [those who are in right standing with God] will live in the land And those [of integrity] who are blameless [in God’s sight] will remain in it;

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous shall be [forcibly] uprooted and removed from it.