Thematic Bible: Frowardness


Thematic Bible




The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God. For I have all his ordinances before me and am attentive to his statutes; I will not depart from them. read more.
And I was perfect before him and have kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore, the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. With the merciful thou art good, and with the perfect thou art upright. With the pure thou art pure, and with the perverse thou art an adversary.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He takes the wise in their own prudence, and the counsel of his adversaries is turned to folly. They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes. With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with a perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect; with the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt show thyself adversary.

For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD; but his secret is with the righteous. Verse ConceptsAbominationsBad InfluenceAbominations, To GodDeviousnessFriendship Kjv

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he that keeps his soul shall be far from them. Verse ConceptsThornsEvil AssociationsGod TrappingPitfalls

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God. For I have all his ordinances before me and am attentive to his statutes; I will not depart from them. read more.
And I was perfect before him and have kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore, the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. With the merciful thou art good, and with the perfect thou art upright. With the pure thou art pure, and with the perverse thou art an adversary.

Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes. With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with a perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect; with the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt show thyself adversary.

discretion shall preserve thee, intelligence shall keep thee to deliver thee from the evil way, from the man that speaks perversion, who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, read more.
who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion,

The evil man flatters his neighbour and leads him into the way that is not good. He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips he brings evil to pass.

The lips of the righteous shall know the will of God, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversion. Verse ConceptsLipsSpeech, Positive Aspects OfObscenity

I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I invent the knowledge of giving counsel. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride, arrogancy, the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out. Verse ConceptsBad LanguageMouthsCursingSevering Body PartsThe TongueTogethernesscutting

They that are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the LORD, but such as are perfect in their way are his delight. Verse ConceptsAbominationsCondemned HeartsDelight, God ExpressingHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPleasing GodPleasureHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleAbominations, To GodTwisted Ways

He that has a perverse heart shall never find good, and he that stirs up trouble with his tongue shall fall into evil. Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedProverbsSpeech, Negative Aspects OfTonguePerversionTwisted Ways

Doth not wisdom cry, and give her voice to intelligence? She stands in the top of high places, by the way at the crossroads of the paths. She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. read more.
Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of men. O ye simple, understand prudence; and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear, for I will speak of excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing perverse or twisted in them.


The way of the perverse man is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right. Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedDeviousnessTwisted WaysPure People