Proverbs 4:27 {5:1}
Good News Translation
Avoid evil and walk straight ahead. Don't go one step off the right way.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Contemporary English Version
Don't make a mistake by turning to the right or the left.

New American Bible
Turn neither to right nor to left, keep your foot far from evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,

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Deuteronomy 5:32 Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

Deuteronomy 12:32 What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.

Deuteronomy 28:14 And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.

Joshua 1:7 Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost.

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Proverbs 16:17 The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way.

Isaiah 1:16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

Context
A Father's Instruction
26Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace. 27My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:32
Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

Deuteronomy 28:14
And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.

Proverbs 1:15
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,

Proverbs 4:26
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