Proverbs 6:12
A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is one who walks with a perverse (corrupt, vulgar) mouth.
Proverbs 4:24
Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth,
And put devious lips far from you.
1 Samuel 17:28
Now Eliab his oldest brother heard what he said to the men; and Eliab’s
Psalm 10:3
For the wicked boasts and sings the praises of his heart’s desire,
And the greedy man curses and spurns [and even despises] the Lord.
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of curses and deceit (fraud) and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness [injustice and sin].
Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 59:7
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
Psalm 73:8-9
They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak loftily [with malice].
Proverbs 2:12
To keep you from the way of evil and the evil man,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
Proverbs 6:14
Who perversely in his heart plots trouble and evil continually;
Who spreads discord and strife.
Proverbs 8:13
“The [reverent] fear and worshipful awe of the Lord includes the hatred of evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way,
And the perverted mouth, I hate.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright will rescue them,
But the treacherous will be caught by their own greed.
Proverbs 16:27
A worthless man devises and digs up evil,
And the words on his lips are like a scorching fire.
Proverbs 17:4
An evildoer listens closely to wicked lips;
And a liar pays attention to a destructive and malicious tongue.
Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are the first to ripen; but the other basket had very bad figs, so rotten that they could not be eaten.
Jeremiah 24:8-10
‘And as for the bad figs, which are so rotten that they cannot be eaten,’ surely thus says the Lord, ‘so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and those who live in the land of Egypt.
Matthew 12:34
Acts 20:30
even from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse and distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves [as their followers].
1 Timothy 5:13
Now at the same time, they also learn to be idle as they go from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossips and
Titus 1:10-11
For there are many rebellious men who are empty talkers [just windbags] and deceivers; especially those of the circumcision [those Jews who insist that Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the Law in order to be saved].
James 1:21
So get rid of all uncleanness and
James 3:6
And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by
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Naughty
The righteousness of the upright will rescue them,
But the treacherous will be caught by their own greed.
An evildoer listens closely to wicked lips;
And a liar pays attention to a destructive and malicious tongue.
Walketh
Who perversely in his heart plots trouble and evil continually;
Who spreads discord and strife.
To keep you from the way of evil and the evil man,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth,
And put devious lips far from you.
“The [reverent] fear and worshipful awe of the Lord includes the hatred of evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way,
And the perverted mouth, I hate.
For the wicked boasts and sings the praises of his heart’s desire,
And the greedy man curses and spurns [and even despises] the Lord.
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak loftily [with malice].