Proverbs 4:24 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Have nothing to do with a corrupt mouth; keep devious lips far from you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Remove from yourself a corrupt mouth, and let detracting lips be far from you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Proverbs 4:24 Cross References

Job 11:14

if iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

Psalm 34:14

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

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

Proverbs 17:20

He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Proverbs 4:25

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Proverbs 6:12

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

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Colossians 3:8

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

1 Timothy 6:5

perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

James 1:21

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 1:26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

1 Peter 2:1

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,