Make straight paths for your feet, and order your ways rightly.

An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished.

A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself, but fools pass on, and will be punished.

For such [people] do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I rejoice on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent to what is evil.

that we may no longer be infants, being tossed as by waves, and being carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in regard to deceitful scheming,

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways, but the folly of fools leads astray.

Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.