Proverbs 4:24
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Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
In other translations
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
- Proverbs 8:8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.
- Proverbs 8:13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
- Proverbs 6:12A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
- Ephesians 4:25-3125 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another. 26 “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. 28 He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
- 1 Peter 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
- James 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
- Colossians 3:8But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
- 1 Timothy 6:5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.
- Proverbs 17:20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
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