Proverbs 16:27

New Century Version

Useless people make evil plans, and their words are like a burning fire.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

It happened that a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bicri from the tribe of Benjamin was there. He blew the trumpet and said: “We have no share in David! We have no part in the son of Jesse! People of Israel, let’s go home!”

Psalm 57:4

Enemies, like lions, are all around me; I must lie down among them. Their teeth are like spears and arrows, their tongues as sharp as swords.

Proverbs 16:26

The workers’ hunger helps them, because their desire to eat makes them work.

Proverbs 16:28

A useless person causes trouble, and a gossip ruins friendships.

Proverbs 16:30

Someone who winks is planning evil, and the one who grins is planning something wrong.

Proverbs 19:28

An evil witness makes fun of fairness, and wicked people love what is evil.

Proverbs 2:4

Search for it like silver, and hunt for it like hidden treasure.

Proverbs 6:12

Some people are wicked and no good. They go around telling lies,

Proverbs 6:14

They make evil plans in their hearts and are always starting arguments.

Isaiah 5:18

How terrible it will be for those people! They pull their guilt and sins behind them as people pull wagons with ropes.

Habakkuk 2:13

The Lord All-Powerful will send fire to destroy what those people have built; all the nations’ work will be for nothing.

James 3:6

And the tongue is like a fire. It is a whole world of evil among the parts of our bodies. The tongue spreads its evil through the whole body. The tongue is set on fire by hell, and it starts a fire that influences all of life.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now think about it, and decide what you can do. Terrible trouble is coming to our master and all his family. Nabal is such a wicked man that no one can even talk to him.”