Proverbs 1:15
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Proverbs 1:15 in other translations
| BSB | my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. |
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| WEB | my son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path, |
| ASV | My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: |
| YLT | My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, |
| DARBY | — my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path; |
| BBE | My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: |
| Webster | My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: |
What does Proverbs 1:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 1:10-19
10-19. A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent ... not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 1:10-19
Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth…
Proverbs 1:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 1:15
- Psalms 119:101
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
- Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
- Proverbs 4:14-15
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
- Proverbs 4:27
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
- Psalms 26:4-5
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
- 2 Corinthians 6:17
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
- Proverbs 9:6
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
- Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
- Jeremiah 14:10
Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
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Context
- Proverbs 1:14
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
- Proverbs 1:15
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
- Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hijo mío, no andes en camino con ellos; aparta tu pie de sus veredas: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | mon fils, ne fais pas route avec eux, retiens ton pied de leur sentier; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mein Sohn, wandle nicht mit ihnen auf dem Wege, halte deinen Fuß zurück von ihrem Pfade; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | fili mi, ne ambules cum eis; prohibe pedem tuum a semitis eorum: |