Pro 21:16
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
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As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: {but} peace {shall be} upon Israel.
Now the just shall live by faith: but if {any man} draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. {beauty: or, strength} {in the grave from...: or, the grave being an habitation to every one of them}
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
He that walketh with wise {men} shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. {destroyed: Heb. broken}
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds {they are} without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
And them that are turned back from the LORD; and {those} that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
And you {hath he quickened}, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would {no doubt} have continued with us: but {they went out}, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong {men} have been slain by her.
For {it is} impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known {it}, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
But he knoweth not that the dead {are} there; {and that} her guests {are} in the depths of hell.
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, {and} doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked {man} doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so {is} a man that wandereth from his place.
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou {art}, and unto dust shalt thou return.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {his} brother abideth in death.