Proverbs 4:24 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁴ Turn away from you a crooked mouth, And put perverse lips 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.

Proverbs 4:24 Cross References

Job 11:14

if wickedness were in your hand, put it far away and do not let perverseness dwell in your tents;

Psalm 34:14

Turn away from evil and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, But the mouth of the wrong speaks perverseness.

Proverbs 17:20

He who has a crooked heart finds no good, And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is the poor walking in his integrity Than one of perverse lips, who is a fool.

Proverbs 4:25

Let your eyes look forward, And your eyelids look straight before you.

Proverbs 6:12

A man of Beliyaʽ

Proverbs 8:13

“The fear of יהוה  is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth.

Proverbs 8:8

“All the words of my mouth are in righteousness, None of them twisted or crooked,

Ezekiel 18:31

“Cast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Colossians 3:8

But now, also put off all these: displeasure, wrath, evil, blasphemy, filthy talk from your mouth.

1 Timothy 6:5

worthless disputes of men of corrupt minds and deprived of the truth, who think that reverence is a means of gain – withdraw from such.

James 1:21

Therefore put away all filthiness and overflow of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted Word,which is able to save your lives.

James 1:26

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is worthless.

1 Peter 2:1

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil words,