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Prov. 2:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walkw in the ways of darkness;

John 12:35• ³⁵Jesus then said to them, Yet a little time the light is among you. Walk while ye have the light, that the darkness may not overtake you; and he that walketh in darkness knoweth not where he goeth. (John 12:35)

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Prov. 21:16• ¹⁶The man that wandereth out of the way of intelligence{HR}Shall rest in the congregation of the departed. (Prov. 21:16)

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Psa. 14:3• ³They all have turned aside, they have together been corrupted;{HR}There is none doing good, there is not even one. (Psa. 14:3)

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Psa. 36:3• ³The words of his mouth [are] falsehood and deceit;{HR}He hath left off to be wise, to do well. (Psa. 36:3)

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Ezek. 18:26• ²⁶When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. (Ezek. 18:26)

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Ezek. 33:12‑13• ¹²Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
¹³When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. (Ezek. 33:12‑13)

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Zeph. 1:6• ⁶And them that are turned back from Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired for him. (Zeph. 1:6)

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Matt. 12:43‑45• ⁴³{i}But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find [it].{/i}
⁴⁴{i}Then he says, I will return to my house whence I came out; and having come, he finds [it] unoccupied, swept, and adorned.{/i}
⁴⁵{i}Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. Thus shall it be to this wicked generation also.{/i} (Matt. 12:43‑45)

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2 Tim. 4:10• ¹⁰for Demas, having loved the present age, forsook me and went unto Thessalonica; Crescens unto Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. (2 Tim. 4:10)

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Heb. 6:4‑6• ⁴For [it is] impossible to renew again unto repentance those that were once enlightened
⁵and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit and tasted God's good word, and powers of an age to come,
⁶and have fallen away, while for themselves crucifying and making a show of the Son of God. (Heb. 6:4‑6)

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2 Peter 2:20‑22• ²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but again entangled and worsted thereby, the last for them is become worse than the first.
²¹For it were better for them not to have known well the way of righteousness than knowing well to have turned back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
²²[But] there hath happened to them the [saying] of the true proverb, A dog returned to his own vomit, and A sow washed into rolling in mire. (2 Peter 2:20‑22)

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1 John 2:19• ¹⁹From us they went out, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have abode with us, but [they went out] that they might be manifested that none are of us. (1 John 2:19)

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Prov. 4:19• ¹⁹The way of the wicked [is] as darkness:{HR}They know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)

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Job 24:13‑16• ¹³They are among the rebels against the light,{HR}They know not his ways, nor remain in his paths.
¹⁴With the light the murderer riseth,{HR}He slayeth the poor and needy,{HR}And in the night he is as a thief.
¹⁵And the adulterer’s eye watches for the twilight,{HR}Saying, "No eye observeth me,"{HR}And he layeth a veil over the face.
¹⁶In the dark he breaketh into houses,{HR}They keep themselves close by day, they know not the light. (Job 24:13‑16)

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John 3:19‑20• ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that the light hath come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not unto the light lest his works should be convicted; (John 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 1:21• ²¹Because, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened. (Rom. 1:21)

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1 Thess. 5:5‑7• ⁵for ye all are sons of light and sons of day: we are not of night nor of darkness.
⁶So, then, let us not sleep as [do] the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
⁷For they that sleep sleep by night, and they that are drunk drink by night; (1 Thess. 5:5‑7)

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John 1:6• ⁶There was a man sent from God—his name John. (John 1:6)

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John 2:9‑11• ⁹But when the master of the feast tasted the water that had become wine (and he knew not whence it was, but the servants that had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast calleth the bridegroom
¹⁰and saith to him, Every man at first setteth on the good wine, and when they have drunk freely, then the worse; thou hast kept the good wine until now.
¹¹This beginning of signs did Jesus at Cana of Galilee, and he manifested his glory, and his disciples believed on him. (John 2:9‑11)

J. N. Darby Translation

from those who leave the paths of uprightnessb, to walk in the ways of darkness;

JND Translation Notes

From jashar. see ch. 3.32.

W. Kelly Translation

[From those] who forsake the paths of uprightness,{HR}To walk in the ways of darkness;