Proverbs 6:12

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A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:24 : 24 Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.
  • Prov 16:27 : 27 A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.
  • Prov 17:4 : 4 One who acts wickedly pays attention to evil counsel; a liar listens to a malicious tongue.
  • Matt 12:34 : 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 : 30 Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 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.
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections, 11 who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.
  • Jas 3:6 : 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.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.
  • Prov 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the treacherous will be ensnared by their own desires.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the LORD.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. 3 You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth.(Selah) 4 You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say,“Who hears?”
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence. 9 They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.
  • Prov 2:12 : 12 to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.
  • Jer 24:2 : 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.
  • Jer 24:8-9 : 8 “I, the LORD, also solemnly assert:‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. 9 I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them. 10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’”
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 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 wilderness? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!”

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  • Prov 6:13-14
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    13he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;

    14he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4One who acts wickedly pays attention to evil counsel; a liar listens to a malicious tongue.

  • Prov 16:27-30
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    27A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.

    28A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

    29A violent person entices his neighbor, and then leads him down a path that is terrible.

    30The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips has accomplished evil.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

  • Prov 2:14-15
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    14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

    15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

  • Prov 6:17-19
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    17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

    18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

    19a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.

  • Prov 2:12
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    12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

  • Job 34:8
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    8He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

  • Prov 19:28
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    28A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31The speech of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but the one who speaks perversion will be destroyed.

    32The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, but the speech of the wicked is perverse.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You do damage with words, and use your tongue to deceive.

  • Prov 24:8
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    8The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person.

  • Prov 17:11
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    11An evil person seeks only rebellion, and so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

  • Prov 10:9-10
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    9The one who conducts himself in integrity will live securely, but the one who behaves perversely will be found out.

    10The one who winks his eye causes trouble, and the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Isa 32:6
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    6For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the LORD; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

  • Prov 18:6
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    6The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 19:1
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    1Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.

  • Prov 18:3
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    3When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.

  • Job 15:5
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    5Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.

  • Prov 10:18
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    18The one who conceals hatred utters lies, and the one who spreads slander is certainly a fool.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

  • Prov 13:5
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    5The righteous person will reject anything false, but the wicked person will act in shameful disgrace.

  • Ps 101:4
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    4I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; I will not permit evil.

  • Prov 21:29
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    29A wicked person has put on a bold face, but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12The city’s wealthy people readily resort to violence; her inhabitants tell lies, their tongues speak deceptive words.

  • Prov 14:17
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    17A person who has a quick temper will do foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes will be hated.

  • Ps 41:6
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    6When someone comes to visit, he pretends to be friendly; he thinks of ways to defame me, and when he leaves he slanders me.

  • Ps 12:8
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    8for the wicked seem to be everywhere, when people promote evil.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

  • Job 20:12
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    12“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,