Proverbs 6:12

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Summary

Proverbs 6:12

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Naughty

James 1:21

Walketh

General references

Matthew 15:18

Bible References

Naughty

The righteousness of the upright delivereth them; but the treacherous are taken in their own craving.

The evil-doer giveth heed to iniquitous lips; the liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

And Eliab, his eldest brother, heard while he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

One basket had very good figs, like the figs first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.

Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Walketh

deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.

To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.

For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.

Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?

They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:

Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.

And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,

and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.

General references

but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.