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 will deliver them,
But the treacherous will be caught by their own greed.

An evildoer listens to wicked lips;
A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

Now Eliab 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? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.”

One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

Walketh

Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil,
Who

spreads strife.

To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;

Put away from you a deceitful mouth
And put devious speech far from you.

“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;

Pride and arrogance and the evil way

And the perverted mouth, I hate.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire,
And the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Behold, they belch forth with their mouth;

Swords are in their lips,

For, they say, “Who hears?”

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak from on high.

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

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

At the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention.

For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by

hell.

General references

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