Proverbs 6:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about 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;

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 6:12 Cross References

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

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 cleave to me.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

Proverbs 10:32

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

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.

Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:30

He who winks his eyes plans perverse things, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

Proverbs 17:4

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

Proverbs 2:12

delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,

Proverbs 3:32

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

Proverbs 4:24

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

Proverbs 6:14

with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

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.

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.

Matthew 12:34

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

Acts 20:30

and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

1 Timothy 5:13

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.

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 3:6

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.

1 Samuel 17:28

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.”