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;

Proverbs 6:12 Cross References

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.

Proverbs 16:27

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

Proverbs 4:24

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

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.

Acts 20:30

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

Proverbs 17:4

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

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.

Psalm 59:7

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

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.

Proverbs 11:6

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

Proverbs 6:14

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

Proverbs 2:12

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

Psalm 36:3

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

Psalm 10:7

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

Psalm 10:3

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

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.

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.

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.

Proverbs 10:32

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

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.

Proverbs 3:32

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

Proverbs 16:30

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