Proverbs 6:12

A worthless, wicked person is marked by deceitful, crooked speech. Corrupt character shows itself in a perverse mouth.

Cross-references · 22

• Matt 12:34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• 1 Tim 5:13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
• Prov 4:24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
• Prov 16:27A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
• Ps 52:2–4Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
• Acts 20:30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• Titus 1:10–11For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
• Prov 17:4An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
• Prov 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
• Prov 2:12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
• Prov 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
• Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
• Ps 73:8–9They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
• Prov 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
• Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
• Jer 24:8–10“‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
• 1 Sam 17:28Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
• Jer 24:2One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
• Jas 1:21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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