Proverbs 6:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 4:24 : 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is like a burning fire.
  • Prov 17:4 : 4 A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 And besides, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossipers and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
  • 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 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but transgressors shall be captured by their own evil.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the greedy, whom the LORD abhors.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah. 4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
  • Prov 2:12 : 12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;
  • 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.
  • Jer 24:2 : 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
  • Jer 24:8-9 : 8 And as for the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus says the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt: 9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men and Eliab's anger burned against David. He said, Why have you come down here? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the wickedness of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.

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  • Prov 6:13-14
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    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.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

  • Prov 16:27-30
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    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.

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

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • 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 2:14-15
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    14Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

    15Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • Prov 6:17-19
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    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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

    19A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

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

  • Job 34:8
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    8Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.

  • Prov 19:28
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    28An ungodly witness scorns judgment, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    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 4:24
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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

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

  • Prov 24:8
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    8He who devises to do evil shall be called a schemer.

  • Prov 17:11
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    11An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

  • Prov 10:9-10
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    9He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

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

  • Prov 17:23
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    23A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Isa 32:6
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    6For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • Prov 18:6
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    6A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

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

  • Prov 6:11
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    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

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

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    3When the wicked comes, contempt also comes, and with dishonor, reproach.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

  • Prov 10:18
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    18He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who utters slander, is a fool.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

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

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Prov 13:5
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    5A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

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

  • Prov 21:29
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    29A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Prov 14:17
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    17He who is quickly angry acts foolishly, and a man of wicked intentions is hated.

  • Ps 41:6
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    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 12:8
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    8The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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