Verse 12

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

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:24 : 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
  • Prov 17:4 : 4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
  • 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 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
  • 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 hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
  • Prov 2:12 : 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
  • 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.
  • Jer 24:2 : 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
  • Jer 24:8-9 : 8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: 9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.