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Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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New Life Version

Proverbs 2:15

His ways are not straight and are not good.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Crookedness;   Duplicity;   Evil;   Pathway of Sin;   Simplicity-Duplicity;   Way;   The Topic Concordance - Crookedness;   Darkness;   Evil;   Straying;   Understanding;   Ways;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sin Offering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Path;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crooked;   Path;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Didache;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
whose paths are crooked,and whose ways are devious.
Hebrew Names Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
King James Version
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
English Standard Version
men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
New Century Version
What they do is wrong, and their ways are dishonest.
New English Translation
whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
Amplified Bible
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
New American Standard Bible
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
World English Bible
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.
Legacy Standard Bible
Whose paths are crooked,And who are devious in their tracks;
Berean Standard Bible
whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.
Contemporary English Version
They are dishonest themselves, and all they do is crooked.
Complete Jewish Bible
from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.
Darby Translation
whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:
Easy-to-Read Version
Their ways are crooked; they lie and cheat.
George Lamsa Translation
Men whose ways are crooked and whose paths are perverse.
Good News Translation
unreliable people who cannot be trusted.
Lexham English Bible
who are crooked in their ways, and devious in their paths;
Literal Translation
whose paths are crooked, who are devious in their tracks;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
whose wayes are croked, and their pathes slaunderous.
American Standard Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Bible in Basic English
Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths;
King James Version (1611)
Whose wayes are crooked, and they froward in their pathes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whose wayes are croked, and they frowarde in their pathes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;
English Revised Version
Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whose weies ben weywerd, and her goyingis ben of yuel fame.
Update Bible Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Webster's Bible Translation
Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
New King James Version
Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;
New Living Translation
Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.
New Revised Standard
those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
Revised Standard Version
men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
Young's Literal Translation
Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

Contextual Overview

10 For wisdom will come into your heart. And much learning will be pleasing to your soul. 11 Good thinking will keep you safe. Understanding will watch over you. 12 You will be kept from the sinful man, and from the man who causes much trouble by what he says. 13 You will be kept from the man who leaves the right way to walk in the ways of darkness, 14 from the one who is happy doing wrong, and who finds joy in the way of sin. 15 His ways are not straight and are not good. 16 You will be saved from the strange woman, from the sinful woman with her smooth words. 17 She leaves the husband she had when she was young, and forgets the agreement with her God. 18 For her house goes down to death, and her steps lead to the dead. 19 None who go to her return again, and they do not find the paths of life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:5, Psalms 125:5, Isaiah 30:8-13, Isaiah 59:8, Philippians 2:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:14 - General Psalms 10:5 - His Isaiah 40:4 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God ended His work which He had done. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Genesis 2:8
The Lord God planted a garden to the east in Eden. He put the man there whom He had made.
Job 31:33
Have I hidden my sins like Adam? Have I hidden my wrong-doing in my heart,
Psalms 128:2
For you will eat the fruit of your hands. You will be happy and it will be well with you.
Ephesians 4:28
Anyone who steals must stop it! He must work with his hands so he will have what he needs and can give to those who need help.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whose ways [are] crooked,.... Which swerve from and are not agreeably to the rule of the divine word, either the law of God or the Gospel of Christ; sin is an aberration, a straying from the rule of God's word, a transgression of his law; and a walk in it is unbecoming the Gospel of Christ; it has many serpentine windings and turnings in it; full of distortions and excursions, and many retrograde actions; see Psalms 125:5;

and [they] froward in their paths; declining here and there, sometimes going one way and sometimes another, but always following that which is evil, and resolute to continue therein.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The evil-doers here include not robbers and murderers only Proverbs 1:10-16, but all who leave the straight path and the open day for crooked ways, perverse counsels, deeds of darkness. “To delight etc.” Proverbs 2:14 is the lowest depth of all.


 
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