20 He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.
Proverbs 17:20 Cross References - KJ2000
Psalms 18:26
26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the devious you will show yourself shrewd.
Proverbs 3:32
32 For the perverse is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
Proverbs 6:12-15
12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
13 He winks with his eyes, he signals with his feet, he motions with his fingers;
14 Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually; he sows discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Proverbs 8:13
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 10:10
10 He that winks with the eye causes trouble: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:14
14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs 10:31
31 The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs 18:6-7
Ecclesiastes 10:12
12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.
James 3:6-8
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.