Verse 12

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.