If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
Proverbs 4:24 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Put away from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you. American Standard Version (1901) Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee. Common English Bible Have nothing to do with a corrupt mouth; keep devious lips far from you. Catholic Public Domain Version Remove from yourself a corrupt mouth, and let detracting lips be far from you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee. |
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Yisra'el?
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,