Proverbs 4:24

Tree of Life Version

Put away perversity from your mouth, and keep devious lips far from you.

Cross References

Job 11:14

if you put away the wickedness that is in your hand, and allow no iniquity to abide in your tent,

Psalm 34:14

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking treachery.

Proverbs 10:32

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

Proverbs 17:20

A perverse heart finds nothing good a devious tongue falls into trouble.

Proverbs 19:1

Better to be poor, walking with integrity, than be a fool whose lips are corrupt.

Proverbs 4:25

Let your eyes look directly ahead, and fix your gaze straight in front of you.

Proverbs 6:12

A scoundrel, a wicked man, is one who goes around with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 8:13

To fear Adonai is to hate evil. I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and a perverse mouth.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are righteous, Nothing in them is perverse or crooked.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast off from you all your transgressions that you have committed. Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?

Colossians 3:8

But now, set them all aside—anger, rage, malice, slander, and foul language out of your mouth.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between people corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

James 1:21

So put away all moral filth and excess of evil and receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 1:26

If anyone thinks he is religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is futile.

1 Peter 2:1

So get rid of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all lashon ha-ra .