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 just shall deliver them; but the despisers shall be taken in their own ungodliness.

A wicked body giveth audience to false lips; and a dissembling person giveth ear to a deceitful tongue.

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the man and was angry with David and said, "Why camest thou away, and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the malice of thine heart, that thou art come to see the battle."

In the one mound were very good figs, even like as those that be first ripe. In the other mound were very naughty figs, which might not be eaten they were so evil.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:

Walketh

he is ever imagining mischief and frowardness in his heart, and causeth discord.

That thou mayest be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh froward things;

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and let the lips of slander be far from thee.

With me is the fear of the LORD, and the eschewing of evil. As for pride, disdain, and evil way, and a mouth that speaketh wicked things, I utterly abhor them.

For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.

Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.

Behold, they speak against me with their mouth, and swords are under their lips, for who reproveth them?

They corrupt others, and speak blasphemies maliciously; proud and presumptuous are their words.

O generation of vipers, how can ye say well, when ye yourselves are evil? For of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

Moreover, of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw disciples after them.

And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yea not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely.

For there are many disobedient and talkers of vanity, and deceivers of minds, namely they of the circumcision,

and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.

General references

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man.