Proverbs 17:20

King James Version 1611 (Original)

He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

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  • Prov 10:31 : 31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
  • Prov 18:6-7 : 6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
  • Eccl 10:12 : 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
  • Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
  • Prov 6:12-15 : 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
  • Prov 10:10 : 10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
  • Prov 10:14 : 14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

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    14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

  • Prov 17:19
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    19He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

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    21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

  • Prov 10:17-20
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    17He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

    18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

    19In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

    20The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

  • Prov 16:27-30
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    27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

    28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

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  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

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    10Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

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    9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Prov 26:27-28
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    27Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

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  • Prov 11:20
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    20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

  • Prov 6:12
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    12A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

  • Prov 19:1
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    1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

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    19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

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  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

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    10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

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    14Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

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    18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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    13Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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    6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

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    7Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

  • Prov 24:2
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    23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

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    29He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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    1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.