Proverbs 6:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² A naughty person, a wicked man, Walketh with a froward mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

Common English Bible

¹² Worthless people and guilty people go around with crooked talk.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;

Proverbs 6:12 Cross References

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Proverbs 16:27

Scoundrels concoct evil, and their speech is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 4:24

Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idle, gadding about from house to house, and they are not merely idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.

Acts 20:30

Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.

Proverbs 17:4

An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright saves them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their schemes.

Proverbs 6:14

with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;

Proverbs 2:12

It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 10:7

Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart; those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.

James 1:21

Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.

Jeremiah 24:2

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.

1 Samuel 17:28

His eldest brother Eliab heard him talking to the men, and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David. He said, “Why have you come down? 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 just to see the battle.”

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.

Psalm 101:3

I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Proverbs 3:32

for the perverse are an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Proverbs 16:30

One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the lips brings evil to pass.