12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
Proverbs 2:12
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Proverbs 2:15–17
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Proverbs 6:23–25
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Proverbs 7:4–6
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Job 33:16–18
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Proverbs 2:19–21
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Psalms 141:8–10
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Proverbs 24:10–12
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