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Psalms 26:4-5
I do not sit with the worthless or associate with hypocrites.I hate a crowd of evildoers, and I do not sit with the wicked.
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Proverbs 4:14-15
Don’t set foot on the path of the wicked; don’t proceed in the way of evil ones.Avoid it; don’t travel on it. Turn away from it, and pass it by.
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Proverbs 13:20
The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.
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Jeremiah 15:17
I never sat with the band of revelers, and I did not celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You filled me with indignation.
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Psalms 119:1-2
How happy are those whose way is blameless, who live according to the Lord’s instruction!Happy are those who keep His decrees and seek Him with all their heart.
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Matthew 7:13-14
“ Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.
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Psalms 1:6
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.
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Luke 11:28
He said,“ Even more, those who hear the word of God and keep it are blessed!”
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Deuteronomy 28:2-68
All these blessings will come and overtake you, because you obey the Lord your God:You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.Your descendants will be blessed, and your land’s produce, and the offspring of your livestock, including the young of your herds and the newborn of your flocks.Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.“ The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions.The Lord will grant you a blessing on your storehouses and on everything you do; He will bless you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.The Lord will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will stand in awe of you.The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with children, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.The Lord will open for you His abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not go after other gods to worship them.“ But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.Your descendants will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning Me.The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.“ The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,so that at noon you will grope as a blind man gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.You will be driven mad by what you see.The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs— from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.“ The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.“ You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with oil, because your olives will drop off.You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.Whirring insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.“ All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you don’t understand,a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.“ You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.“ If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awesome name— Yahweh, your God—He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess.Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival.In the morning you will say,‘ If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say,‘ If only it were morning!’— because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
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Proverbs 1:15
my son, don’t travel that road with them or set foot on their path,
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Leviticus 26:27-28
“ And if in spite of this you do not obey Me but act with hostility toward Me,I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins.
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Psalms 34:8
Taste and see that the Lord is good. How happy is the man who takes refuge in Him!
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Psalms 36:4
Even on his bed he makes malicious plans. He sets himself on a path that is not good and does not reject evil.
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Genesis 49:6
May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For in their anger they kill men, and on a whim they hamstring oxen.
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Job 21:16
But their prosperity is not of their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
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Psalms 112:1
Hallelujah! Happy is the man who fears the Lord, taking great delight in His commands.
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Psalms 26:12
My foot stands on level ground; I will praise the Lord in the assemblies.
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Proverbs 13:15
Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous never changes.
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Ephesians 6:13
This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.
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Psalms 119:115
Depart from me, you evil ones, so that I may obey my God’s commands.
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Psalms 81:12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans.
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Proverbs 2:12
rescuing you from the way of evil— from the one who says perverse things,
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Psalms 106:3
How happy are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
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Proverbs 4:19
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble.
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Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit; if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”
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Revelation 22:14
“ Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.
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Proverbs 3:34
He mocks those who mock, but gives grace to the humble.
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Romans 5:2
We have also obtained access through Him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
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Psalms 144:15
Happy are the people with such blessings. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
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Psalms 84:12
Happy is the person who trusts in You, Lord of Hosts!
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Proverbs 1:22
“ How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
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Jeremiah 17:7
The man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.
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John 20:29
Jesus said,“ Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Those who believe without seeing are blessed.”
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1 Kings 16 31
Then, as if following the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat were a trivial matter, he married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and then proceeded to serve Baal and worship him.
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Psalms 146:9
The Lord protects foreigners and helps the fatherless and the widow, but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.
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Ezekiel 20:18
“ Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.
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Psalms 115:12-15
The Lord remembers us and will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron;He will bless those who fear the Lord— small and great alike.May the Lord add to your numbers, both yours and your children’s.May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
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Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the scheming of wicked people, from the mob of evildoers,
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Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
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Deuteronomy 33:29
How happy you are, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is the shield that protects you, the sword you boast in. Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their backs.
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Psalms 32:1-2
How joyful is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!How joyful is the man the Lord does not charge with sin and in whose spirit is no deceit!
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Psalms 2:12
Pay homage to the Son or He will be angry and you will perish in your rebellion, for His anger may ignite at any moment. All those who take refuge in Him are happy.
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Matthew 16:17
And Jesus responded,“ Simon son of Jonah, you are blessed because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father in heaven.
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Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.
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John 13:17
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
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Psalms 146:5
Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
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Job 10:3
Is it good for You to oppress, to reject the work of Your hands, and favor the plans of the wicked?
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1 Peter 4 3
For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
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2 Chronicles 22 3
He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother gave him evil advice.
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Job 31:5
If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
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Luke 23:51
who had not agreed with their plan and action. He was from Arimathea, a Judean town, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.
