Proverbs 1:10-16

Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
 
This scripture is one that really applies to us all in that we all make the choices in our lives that affects how we spend our life. The sinner mentioned here is the one who has hardened their heat to point that they only know how to entice people to stray from
God. The force of peer pressure is often the most enticing way to get people to sin. These scriptures seems to focus on murder but it is really about the “little” sins that get us started. These sins can if we continue to listen to those that try to lead us astray cause us to get caught up in almost anything to the point of murder. They will entice to the to show how great the rewards can be, that all can share in the bounty. Then verse 15 tells us to avoid sin at the onset, do all you can to never take that first temptation. Because in verse 16 it shows us again they are only there to keep us from having what has been promised by God, Eternal life in heaven with Him.

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