27 Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.
Proverbs 4:27
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Proverbs 4:13–15
13 Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life. 14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. 15 Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
Proverbs 1:14–16
14 Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”— 15 my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. 16 For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
Sirach 7:1–3
1 Do no evil, so no evil will overtake you. (WEB) 2 Depart from wrong, and it will turn away from you. (WEB) 3 My son, don’t sow upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and you won’t reap them sevenfold. (WEB)
Proverbs 7:24–26
24 Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. 26 For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
Deuteronomy 5:31–33
31 But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.” 32 So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn… 33 …
Deuteronomy 28:13–15
13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today. 14 Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the w…
Proverbs 16:16–18
16 How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver. 17 The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life. 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
1 Clement 22:3–5
3 Make thy tongue to cease from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile. (1CL) 4 Turn aside from evil and do good. (1CL) 5 Seek peace and ensue it. (1CL)
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