Proverbs 4:27
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 4:27Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
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I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.
However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.
However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.