Proverbs 4:24

Geneva Bible (1560)

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man amog you seeme religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine.
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Wherefore, laying aside all maliciousnes, and all guile, and dissimulation, and enuie, and all euill speaking,
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthinesse, and superfluitie of maliciousnesse, and receiue with meekenes the word that is graffed in you, which is able to saue your soules.
  • Prov 8:8 : 8 All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.
  • Eph 4:25-31 : 25 Wherefore cast off lying, and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 26 Bee angrie, but sinne not: let not the sunne goe downe vpon your wrath, 27 Neither giue place to the deuill. 28 Let him that stole, steale no more: but let him rather labour, and worke with his handes the thing which is good, that hee may haue to giue vnto him that needeth. 29 Let no corrupt comunicatio proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good, to ye vse of edifying, that it may minister grace vnto the hearers. 30 And grieue not the holy Spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed vnto ye day of redemptio 31 Let all bitternesse, and anger, and wrath, crying, and euill speaking be put away from you, with all maliciousnesse.
  • Job 11:14 : 14 If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.
  • Prov 6:12 : 12 The vnthriftie man and the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye haue transgressed, and make you a newe heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
  • Col 3:8 : 8 But now put ye away euen all these things, wrath, anger, maliciousnes, cursed speaking, filthie speaking, out of your mouth.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Frowarde disputations of men of corrupt mindes & destitute of ye trueth, which thinke that gaine is godlines: from such separate thy selfe.

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    13 Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

    14 Eschewe euill and doe good: seeke peace and followe after it.

  • Prov 4:25
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    25 Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyeliddes direct thy way before thee.

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31 The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

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  • Prov 6:24
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    24 To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

  • Prov 4:23
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    23 Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.

  • Ps 141:3
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    3 Set a watch, O Lorde, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4 The wicked giueth heed to false lippes, and a lyer hearkeneth to the naughtie tongue.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20 The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.

  • Prov 5:2-3
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    2 That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

    3 For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

  • Prov 2:12
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    12 And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,

  • Prov 8:7-8
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    7 For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

    8 All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.

  • Job 27:4
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    4 My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18 For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.

  • Prov 4:15
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    15 Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18 Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3 In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2 They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

    3 The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:

  • Prov 16:23
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    23 The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes.

  • Ps 101:4
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    4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will knowe none euill.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5 Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that regardeth his soule, will depart farre from them.

  • Prov 2:16
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    16 And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

  • Prov 4:21
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    21 Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.

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    12 The vnthriftie man and the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.

  • Prov 4:27
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    27 Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.

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    4 Concerning the workes of men, by the wordes of thy lips I kept mee from the paths of the cruell man.

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    3 Hee that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life: but he that openeth his lips, destruction shal be to him.

  • Prov 5:7-8
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    7 Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

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    5 That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

  • Prov 4:5
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    5 Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

  • Prov 15:2
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    2 The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse.

  • Prov 10:19
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    19 In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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    10 For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

  • Prov 30:32
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    32 If thou hast bene foolish in lifting thy selfe vp, and if thou hast thought wickedly, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.

  • Job 15:5
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    5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.

  • Prov 18:6
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    6 A fooles lips come with strife, & his mouth calleth for stripes.

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    5 Trust ye not in a friend, neither put ye confidence in a counseller: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30 He shutteth his eyes to deuise wickednes: he moueth his lippes, and bringeth euil to passe.

  • Prov 14:7
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    7 Depart from the foolish man, when thou perceiuest not in him the lippes of knowledge.

  • Eccl 10:12
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    12 The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14 Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.