For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
Proverbs 6:12 - Revised Standard Version A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A naughty person, a wicked man, Walketh with a froward mouth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth. American Standard Version (1901) A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth; Common English Bible Worthless people and guilty people go around with crooked talk. Catholic Public Domain Version An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth, |
For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cleave to me.
The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.
The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.
A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
He who winks his eyes plans perverse things, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.
An evildoer listens to wicked lips; and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.
for the perverse man is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, gadding about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.
Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption, and the evil of your heart; for you have come down to see the battle.”