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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  • Ps 34:13-14
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    13Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

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

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

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

    32The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.

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

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

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

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A 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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    4The wicked giueth heed to false lippes, and a lyer hearkeneth to the naughtie tongue.

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

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

    3For 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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    12And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,

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

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

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

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For 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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    23He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.

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

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

  • Prov 14:3
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    3In 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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    19Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thornes 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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    16And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

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

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

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

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

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    3Hee 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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    7Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

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

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

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

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

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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    10For 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.

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    2For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

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

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

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

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    5Trust 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.

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

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

  • Eccl 10:12
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    12The 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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    14Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.