Proverbs 16:30

Authorized King James Version (1611)

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

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  • Prov 6:12-14 : 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.
  • Prov 10:10 : 10 ¶ He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 ¶ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 ‹For this people's heart is waxed gross, and› [their] ‹ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with› [their] ‹eyes, and hear with› [their] ‹ears, and should understand with› [their] ‹heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.›
  • Matt 14:7-8 : 7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. 8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
  • Matt 27:23-26 : 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. 24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye [to it]. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children. 26 ¶ Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified.
  • John 3:20 : 20 ‹For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.›

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:12-15
    4 verses
    80%

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

    13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

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

    15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

  • Ps 36:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

    3The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.

    4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.

  • Prov 24:8
    77%

    8He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

  • Prov 16:27-29
    3 verses
    77%

    27¶ An 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.

    29¶ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good.

  • Prov 24:2
    76%

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

  • Ps 10:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

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

    8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

  • Prov 17:20
    75%

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

  • Prov 21:29
    75%

    29¶ A wicked man hardeneth his face: but [as for] the upright, he directeth his way.

  • Prov 6:18
    75%

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

  • Prov 10:10
    74%

    10¶ He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

  • Prov 17:4
    74%

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

  • Isa 31:2
    74%

    2Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

  • Ps 50:19
    74%

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

  • Prov 26:24
    74%

    24¶ He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

  • Prov 10:18
    73%

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

  • Ps 64:5
    73%

    5They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Isa 32:7
    73%

    7The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

  • Ps 52:2
    72%

    2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Job 5:13
    72%

    13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

  • Job 15:35
    72%

    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  • Ps 31:18
    72%

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

  • Prov 10:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

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

    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness.

  • Prov 26:26
    72%

    26[Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the [whole] congregation.

  • Ps 41:6
    72%

    6And if he come to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

  • Ps 37:12
    72%

    12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

  • Prov 17:23
    72%

    23¶ A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

  • Prov 4:24
    72%

    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

  • Ps 34:13
    72%

    13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

  • Job 20:12
    72%

    12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

  • Prov 4:16
    71%

    16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

  • Ps 7:14
    71%

    14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

    3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Prov 15:28
    71%

    28¶ The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

  • Ps 7:16
    71%

    16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

  • Isa 33:15
    71%

    15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

  • Prov 16:10
    71%

    10¶ A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

  • Job 24:15
    71%

    15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.

  • Prov 1:16
    71%

    16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  • Ps 140:2
    71%

    2Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.

  • Prov 2:14
    71%

    14Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

  • Job 15:30
    71%

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.