Proverbs 4:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

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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 is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.

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, what is perverse.

Proverbs 17:20

A man of crooked mind does not prosper, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a man who is perverse in speech, and is a fool.

Proverbs 4:25

Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

Proverbs 6:12

A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,

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.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

Colossians 3:8

But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth.

1 Timothy 6:5

and wrangling among men who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

James 1:21

Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 1:26

If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain.

1 Peter 2:1

So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander.