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 delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.

An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle."

One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Walketh

with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,

Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.

The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips-- for "Who," they think,"will hear us?"

They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

General references

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.