With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"
They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.
In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.