Proverbs 17:20

Proverbs Of Solomon

¹⁹ He who loves transgression loves strife;
He who raises his door seeks destruction.
²⁰ He who has a crooked mind finds no good,
And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil.
²¹ He who sires a fool does so to his sorrow,
And the father of a fool has no joy.

Deceitful Tongue

No

Psalm 18:26

With the pure You show Yourself pure,
And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.

Proverbs 3:32

For the devious are an abomination to the Lord;
But He is intimate with the upright.

Proverbs 6:12-15

A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 8:13

“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.

Proverbs 10:10

He who winks the eye causes trouble,
And a babbling fool will be ruined.

Proverbs 10:14

Wise men store up knowledge,
But with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand.

Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the righteous flows with wisdom,
But the perverted tongue will be cut out.

Proverbs 18:6-7

A fool’s lips bring strife,
And his mouth calls for blows.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, while the lips of a fool consume him;

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.