Proverbs 6:12

Modern English Version

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

Cross References

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of his soul’s desire, and blesses the greedy and despises the Lord.

Psalm 10:7

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

Psalm 101:3

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they bellow with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, “Who hears 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 will deliver them, but the treacherous will be caught by their desires.

Proverbs 16:27

An ungodly man digs up evil; in his speech is a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:30

He winks his eyes to plot perverse things; pursing his lips, he brings evil to pass.

Proverbs 17:4

An evildoer listens to lying lips, and a liar listens to a spiteful tongue.

Proverbs 2:12

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things,

Proverbs 3:32

for the perverse is an abomination to the Lord, but His counsel is with the upright.

Proverbs 4:24

Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

Proverbs 6:14

perverseness is in his heart, he devises evil continually, he sows discord.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and perverse speech do I hate.

Jeremiah 24:2

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

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Acts 20:30

Even from among you men will arise speaking perverse things, to draw the disciples away after them.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idle, and not only idle, wandering around from house to house, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they ought not.

James 1:21

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 3:6

The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. The tongue is among the parts of the body, defiling the whole body, and setting the course of nature on fire, and it is set on fire by hell.

1 Samuel 17:28

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 here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart, for you have come down that you might see the battle.”