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Proverbs 4:15

Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Company;   Fellowship;   Temptation;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Avoid Evil;   Exhortations;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 30;   Every Day Light - Devotion for February 4;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Avoid it; don’t travel on it.Turn away from it, and pass it by.
Hebrew Names Version
Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
King James Version
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
English Standard Version
Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
New Century Version
Avoid their ways, and don't follow them. Stay away from them and keep on going,
New English Translation
Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
Amplified Bible
Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.
New American Standard Bible
Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on.
World English Bible
Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
Legacy Standard Bible
Avoid it, do not pass by it;Stray from it and pass on.
Berean Standard Bible
Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
Contemporary English Version
Turn aside and keep going. Stay away from them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Avoid it, don't go on it, turn away from it, and pass on.
Darby Translation
avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
Easy-to-Read Version
Stay away from that path; don't even go near it. Turn around and go another way.
George Lamsa Translation
The place where they dwell, do not pass by it, turn away from it,
Good News Translation
Don't do it! Keep away from evil! Refuse it and go on your way.
Lexham English Bible
Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by.
Literal Translation
Avoid it, do not pass by it; turn from it and pass on.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Eschue it, & go not therin: departe asyde, & passe ouer by it.
American Standard Version
Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
Bible in Basic English
Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.
King James Version (1611)
Auoid it, passe not by it, turne from it, and passe away.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Abhorre it and go not therein, depart aside, and passe ouer by it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away.
English Revised Version
Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fle thou fro it, and passe thou not therbi; bowe thou awei, and forsake it.
Update Bible Version
Avoid it, don't pass by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
Webster's Bible Translation
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
New King James Version
Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.
New Living Translation
Don't even think about it; don't go that way. Turn away and keep moving.
New Life Bible
Stay away from it. Do not pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
New Revised Standard
Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Avoid it, do not pass thereon - turn from it, and depart.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
Revised Standard Version
Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
Young's Literal Translation
Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on.

Contextual Overview

14 Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men. 15 Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by. 16 For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall. 17 For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence. 18 But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day. 19 The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 5:8, Proverbs 6:5, Exodus 23:7, Job 11:14, Job 22:23, Isaiah 33:15, Ephesians 5:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:22

Reciprocal: Psalms 1:1 - walketh Proverbs 1:15 - walk Proverbs 7:8 - General Proverbs 7:25 - thine Proverbs 9:6 - Forsake Proverbs 12:11 - he that followeth Matthew 26:41 - enter

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If Kain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech, seuentie times seuen folde.
Leviticus 26:18
And if ye wil not for these things obey me, then wil I punish you seuen times more, according to your sinnes,
Leviticus 26:21
And if ye walke stubburnly against me, and will not obey mee, I will then bring seuen times mo plagues vpon you, according to your sinnes.
Leviticus 26:24
Then wil I also walke stubburnly against you, and I will smite you yet seuen times for your sinnes:
Leviticus 26:28
Then will I walke stubburnly in mine anger against you, and I will also chastice you seuen times more according to your sinnes.
1 Kings 16:7
And also by the hande of Iehu the sonne of Hanani the Prophet, came the worde of the Lord to Baasha, and to his house, that he shoulde be like the house of Ieroboam, euen for all the wickednes that he did in the sight of the Lord, in prouoking him with the worke of his hands, and because he killed him.
Psalms 59:11
Slay them not, least my people forget it: but scatter them abroad by thy power, and put them downe, O Lord our shield,
Psalms 79:12
And render to our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome their reproche, wherewith they haue reproched thee, O Lord.
Proverbs 6:31
But if he be founde, he shall restore seuen folde, or he shall giue all the substance of his house.
Ezekiel 9:4
And the Lord said vnto him, Goe through the middes of the citie, euen through the middes of Ierusalem and set a marke vpon the foreheads of them that mourne, and cry for all the abominations that be done in the middes thereof.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Avoid it,.... As dangerous and pernicious, as abominable and detestable; or, "flee from it", as the Vulgate Latin version: Jarchi and Gersom interpret it, "make it void"; cause it to cease, destroy it, do all you can to hinder the wicked from accomplishing their designs;

pass not by it; do not come near it; keep at a distance from it, that you may not be drawn into it; abstain from all appearance of evil, and everything that may lead to it;

turn from it, and pass away; the Targum adds, "from them", from wicked men. This heap of words is used to show the danger of bad company; to dissuade from the least approach to it; and to express the vehement desire of the wise man to preserve his son, and all well inclined persons, from it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.

Proverbs 4:7

Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.

Proverbs 4:12

The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (“when thou runnest”) there is no risk of falling.

Proverbs 4:13

She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.

Proverbs 4:16

A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.

Proverbs 4:17

i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, “They eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.” Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.

Proverbs 4:18

Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good man’s life. Compare the marginal reference.

Proverbs 4:19

Compare our Lord’s teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.

Proverbs 4:20

The teacher speaks again in his own person.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 4:15. Avoid it — Let it be the serious purpose of thy soul to shun every appearance of evil.

Pass not by it — Never, for the sake of worldly gain, or through complaisance to others, approach the way that thou wouldst not wish to be found in when God calls thee into the eternal world.

Turn from it — If, through unwatchfulness or unfaithfulness, thou at any time get near or into the way of sin, turn from it with the utmost speed, and humble thyself before thy Maker.

And pass away. — Speed from it, run for thy life, and get to the utmost distance; eternally diverging so as never to come near it whilst thou hast a being.


 
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