Verse 12

A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:24 : 24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
  • Prov 17:4 : 4 A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision, 11 By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.
  • Prov 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade. 3 You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.) 4 Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. 9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.
  • Prov 2:12 : 12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
  • Jer 24:2 : 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food.
  • Jer 24:8-9 : 8 And like the bad figs which are so bad that they are of no use for food, so I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his chiefs and the rest of Jerusalem who are still in this land, and those who are in the land of Egypt: 9 I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering. 10 And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.