Proverbs 16:30

KJV1611 – Modern English

He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

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  • Prov 6:12-14 : 12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth. 13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers; 14 Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
  • Prov 10:10 : 10 He who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a prating fool shall fall.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is like a burning fire.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people dull, 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 be converted and healed.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For this people's heart has become callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.
  • Matt 14:7-8 : 7 So he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask. 8 And she, having been prompted by her mother, said, Give me here the head of John the Baptist on a platter.
  • Matt 27:23-26 : 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil has he done? But they cried out all the more, saying, Let him be crucified. 24 When Pilate saw that he could nothing prevail, but 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 to it yourselves. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children. 26 Then he released Barabbas to them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
  • John 3:20 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:12-15
    4 verses
    80%

    12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

    13He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;

    14Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

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

  • Ps 36:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

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

    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

    4He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

  • Prov 24:8
    77%

    8He who devises to do evil shall be called a schemer.

  • Prov 16:27-29
    3 verses
    77%

    27An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is like a burning fire.

    28A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

    29A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into a way that is not good.

  • Prov 24:2
    76%

    2For their hearts plot 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 sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

  • Prov 17:20
    75%

    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • Prov 21:29
    75%

    29A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.

  • Prov 6:18
    75%

    18A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

  • Prov 10:10
    74%

    10He who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a prating fool shall fall.

  • Prov 17:4
    74%

    4A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

  • Isa 31:2
    74%

    2Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • Ps 50:19
    74%

    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Prov 26:24
    74%

    24He who hates others disguises it with his lips, and stores up deceit within him;

  • Prov 10:18
    73%

    18He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who utters slander, is a fool.

  • Ps 64:5
    73%

    5They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Isa 32:7
    73%

    7The schemes of the miser are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks what is right.

  • Ps 52:2
    72%

    2Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Job 5:13
    72%

    13He catches the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse is brought to a rapid end.

  • Job 15:35
    72%

    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares 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%

    31The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversity.

  • Prov 26:26
    72%

    26Though his hatred is concealed by deceit, his wickedness shall be exposed before the assembly.

  • Ps 41:6
    72%

    6And if he comes to see me, he speaks vain things; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes out, he tells it.

  • Ps 37:12
    72%

    12The wicked plot against the just and gnash at him with their teeth.

  • Prov 17:23
    72%

    23A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Prov 4:24
    72%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Ps 34:13
    72%

    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • Job 20:12
    72%

    12Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

  • Prov 4:16
    71%

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Ps 7:14
    71%

    14Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

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

  • Prov 15:28
    71%

    28The heart of the righteous studies how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours 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 crown.

  • Isa 33:15
    71%

    15He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

  • Prov 16:10
    71%

    10A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth does not transgress in judgment.

  • Job 24:15
    71%

    15The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and disguises his face.

  • Prov 1:16
    71%

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

  • Ps 140:2
    71%

    2Who devise mischiefs in their hearts; continually they gather together for war.

  • Prov 2:14
    71%

    14Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity 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 he shall go away.