Proverbs 6:12

New English Translation

A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

Cross References

Psalm 10:3

Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the Lord.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

Psalm 101:3

I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.

Psalm 36:3

The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

Psalm 59:7

Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say, “Who hears?”

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, but the speech of the wicked is perverse.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the faithless will be captured by their own desires.

Proverbs 16:27

A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:30

The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

Proverbs 17:4

One who acts wickedly pays attention to evil counsel; a liar listens to a malicious tongue.

Proverbs 2:12

to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

Proverbs 3:32

for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.

Proverbs 4:24

Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

Proverbs 6:14

he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.

Matthew 12:34

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Acts 20:30

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

1 Timothy 5:13

And besides that, going around from house to house they learn to be lazy, and they are not only lazy, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things they should not.

James 1:21

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell.

1 Samuel 17:28

When David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said, “Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!”