Proverbs 16:27

New International Version

A scoundrel plots evil, and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted, “We have no share in David, no part in Jesse’s son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”

Psalm 57:4

I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of laborers works for them; their hunger drives them on.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

Proverbs 16:30

Whoever winks with their eye is plotting perversity; whoever purses their lips is bent on evil.

Proverbs 19:28

A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.

Proverbs 2:4

and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,

Proverbs 6:12

A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

Proverbs 6:14

who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,

Habakkuk 2:13

Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

James 3:6

The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”