Proverbs 4:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

Cross References

Job 11:14

If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

Psalm 34:14

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.

Proverbs 17:20

Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

Proverbs 4:25

Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

Proverbs 6:12

A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

Proverbs 8:8

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

Ezekiel 18:31

Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

Colossians 3:8

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

1 Timothy 6:5

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

James 1:21

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

James 1:26

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

1 Peter 2:1

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,