Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

He that walketh with wise {men} shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. {destroyed: Heb. broken}

The fear of the LORD {is} to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean {thing}; and I will receive you,

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept {me from} the paths of the destroyer.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil {men}.

Incline not my heart to {any} evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

For the froward {is} abomination to the LORD: but his secret {is} with the righteous.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. {soweth: Heb. sendeth forth}

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked {person}.

Blessed {is} the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. {ungodly: or, wicked}

He that walketh with wise {men} shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. {destroyed: Heb. broken}

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way {that is} not good.

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. {the oppressor: Heb. a man of violence}

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked {speaketh} frowardness. {frowardness: Heb. frowardnesses}

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked {person}.

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.