Proverbs 6:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² A worthless person, a man of iniquity; He walketh with a froward mouth;

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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 boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth the LORD.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalm 101:3

I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave unto me.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath left off to be wise and to do good.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?

Proverbs 10:32

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

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: But they that deal treacherously shall be taken in their own mischief.

Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man deviseth mischief: And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:30

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

Proverbs 17:4

An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; And a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

Proverbs 2:12

To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak froward things;

Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD: But his secret is with the upright.

Proverbs 4:24

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

Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; He soweth discord.

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.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Matthew 12:34

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Acts 20:30

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

1 Timothy 5:13

And withal they learn also to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

James 1:21

Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

1 Samuel 17:28

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.