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Proverbs 4 › verse

Proverbs 4:15

Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.

Sin, temptation and holiness

Key words: ʿāḇar śāṭâ pāraʿ

Original words

EnglishOriginal wordRoot#
Avoid itpᵊrāʿêû פְּרָעֵהוּpāraʿ1
passtaʿăḇār תַּעֲבָרʿāḇar2
not'al אַל'al26
by itsupplied in English
turnśᵊṭê שְׂטֵהśāṭâ1
from itmēʿālāyv מֵעָלָיוʿal4
and pass awayvaʿăḇôr וַעֲבוֹרʿāḇar2

Cross-references 8

Passages are shown in the NKJV.

(whole verse) 8
  • Proverbs 5:8

    8Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,

  • Proverbs 6:5

    5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Exodus 23:7

    7Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

  • Job 11:14

    14If iniquity were in your hand, and you put it far away, And would not let wickedness dwell in your tents;

  • Job 22:23

    23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; You will remove iniquity far from your tents.

  • Isaiah 33:15

    15He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, He who despises the gain of oppressions, Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes, Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, And shuts his eyes from seeing evil:

  • Ephesians 5:11

    11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:22

    22Abstain from every form of evil.

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