Proverbs 16:27

New American Bible - revised edition

Scoundrels are a furnace of evil, and their lips are like a scorching fire.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a scoundrel named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He sounded the horn and cried out, “We have no share in David, nor any heritage in the son of Jesse. Everyone to your tents, O Israel!”

Psalm 57:4

May God send help from heaven to save me, shame those who trample upon me. May God send fidelity and mercy. Selah

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of workers works for them, for their mouths urge them on.

Proverbs 16:28

Perverse speech sows discord, and talebearing separates bosom friends.

Proverbs 16:30

Whoever winks an eye plans perversity; whoever purses the lips does evil.

Proverbs 19:28

An unprincipled witness scoffs at justice, and the mouth of the wicked pours out iniquity.

Proverbs 2:4

If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out,

Proverbs 6:12

Scoundrels, villains, are they who deal in crooked talk.

Proverbs 6:14

They have perversity in their hearts, always plotting evil, sowing discord.

Isaiah 5:18

Ah! Those who tug at guilt with cords of perversity, and at sin as if with cart ropes!

Habakkuk 2:13

Is this not from the Lord of hosts: peoples toil for what the flames consume, and nations grow weary for nothing!

James 3:6

The tongue is also a fire. It exists among our members as a world of malice, defiling the whole body and setting the entire course of our lives on fire, itself set on fire by Gehenna.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now, see what you can do, for you must realize that otherwise disaster is in store for our master and for his whole house. He is such a scoundrel that no one can talk to him.”