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Proverbs 2:14–15
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Proverbs 2:14
14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
14Who reioyce to doe euill, and delight in the frowardnesse of the wicked.
Proverbs 2:15
15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
15Whose wayes are crooked, and they froward in their pathes.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 2:14
To affect with great pleasure; to please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction or joy. A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
frowardness
Perversity, stubborn disobedience, or a disposition contrary to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 2:15
Perverse, devious, or turned aside from the right way in character or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Perverse, untoward, self-willed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ways, tracks, or courses followed in travel or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
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Open the full verse study32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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Open the full verse study15What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
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Open the full verse study6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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Open the full verse study4And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
5And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
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Open the full verse study3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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Open the full verse study11In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
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Open the full verse study15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
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Open the full verse study8The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
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Open the full verse study5They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
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Open the full verse study15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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Open the full verse study8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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Open the full verse study8¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
9That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
10Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
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