Proverbs 4:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and excess of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • Prov 8:8 : 8 All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or perverse in them.
  • Eph 4:25-31 : 25 Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 Nor give place to the devil. 28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need. 29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
  • Job 11:14 : 14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents.
  • Prov 6:12 : 12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?
  • Col 3:8 : 8 But now you also put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 34:13-14
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

    14Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

  • Prov 4:25
    79%

    25Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    78%

    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 6:24
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    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • Prov 4:23
    77%

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

  • Ps 141:3
    76%

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

  • Prov 15:4
    76%

    4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a break in the spirit.

  • Prov 17:4
    76%

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

  • Prov 17:20
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    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • Prov 5:2-3
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    2That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

    3For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

  • Prov 2:12
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    12To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

  • Prov 8:7-8
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    7For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

    8All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or perverse in them.

  • Job 27:4
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    4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 21:23
    74%

    23Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

  • Prov 4:15
    74%

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

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Prov 14:3
    74%

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

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

  • Prov 16:23
    73%

    23The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

  • Ps 101:4
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    4A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul shall be far from them.

  • Prov 2:16
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    16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

  • Prov 4:21
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    21Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 6:12
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    12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

  • Prov 4:27
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    27Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

  • Ps 17:4
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    4Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

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    3He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

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    7Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

    8Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

  • Prov 7:5
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    5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

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

  • Prov 15:2
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    2The tongue of the wise uses knowledge appropriately, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

  • Prov 10:19
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    19In the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
    72%

    10For he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

  • Prov 24:2
    72%

    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Prov 30:32
    72%

    32If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.

  • Job 15:5
    72%

    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

  • Prov 18:6
    72%

    6A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.

  • Mic 7:5
    72%

    5Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

  • Prov 14:7
    72%

    7Leave the presence of a foolish man, when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

  • Eccl 10:12
    72%

    12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.