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

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

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

Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. {obtain: Heb. bring forth}

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

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

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

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide {is} the gate, and broad {is} the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: {strait: or, narrow}

He {is in} the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. {erreth: or, causeth to err}

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

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide {is} the gate, and broad {is} the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: {strait: or, narrow}

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

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

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove {them}.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not {in him} the lips of knowledge.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain {persons is} void of understanding.

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}.

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.

And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

To deliver thee from the way of the evil {man}, from the man that speaketh froward things;

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name {was} Hirah.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

Come with me from Lebanon, {my} spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, {and} cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.