Proverbs 4:24

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • Prov 8:8 : 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
  • Eph 4:25-31 : 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
  • Job 11:14 : 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
  • Prov 6:12 : 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
  • 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 17:20 : 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
  • Col 3:8 : 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

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    31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

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    24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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    23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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    3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

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

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

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

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    2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

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    12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

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    7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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    4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

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    18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

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    23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

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    15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

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    18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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    3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

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

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    2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

    3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

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    23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

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    4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

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

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    16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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    21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

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    12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

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    5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

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    5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

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    2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

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    2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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