KJV King James Version
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
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Proverbs 6:12
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
WEB World English Bible
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
ASV American Standard Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,
Surrounding context — Proverbs 6
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
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Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.Proverbs 4:24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.Proverbs 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire.1 Timothy 5:13And withal they learn [to be] idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.Psalm 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?Psalm 52:2-4Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.Acts 20:30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.Proverbs 17:4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.Titus 1:10-11For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:Proverbs 6:14Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.Psalm 73:8-9They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.Psalm 36:3The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.James 3:6And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.Psalm 10:3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.Psalm 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.Proverbs 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness.Proverbs 2:12To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
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