⁴ A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

²⁰ Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, But those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

¹⁹ 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{TR reads "Christ" instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness."

³³ Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

¹⁴ Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?

¹⁵ What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

¹⁶ What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

²³ Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

²⁴ Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, And don't associate with one who harbors anger:

⁶ Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

¹³ The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

³² For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, But his friendship is with the upright.

¹² To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men who speak perverse things;

¹³ Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

¹⁵ Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, you evildoers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.

⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, For Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.