Proverbs 6:12 Cross References - LEB

¹² A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with _⌊deceitful speech_⌋.*

²⁸ His oldest brother Eliab heard while he was speaking to the men, _⌊and Eliab became very angry against David_⌋* and said, "Why have you come down today, and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumptuousness and the evil of your heart! For you have come down in order to see the battle!"

³ for the wicked boasts about the desire of his _⌊heart_⌋,* and the one greedy for gain curses and treats Yahweh with contempt.

⁷ His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.

³ The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight and to do good.

² Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit. ³ You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking _⌊what is right_⌋.* Selah ⁴ You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,

⁷ Look, they pour out talk with their mouth. Swords are on their lips, for they say, "Who hears?"

⁸ They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak as though from on high. ⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.

¹² in order to deliver you from the way of evil,* from a man who speaks devious things—

²⁴ Remove from yourself _⌊deceitful speech_⌋,* and abolish _⌊devious talk_⌋* from yourself.

¹⁴ perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.*

¹³ The fear of Yahweh is hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright will save them, but by a scheme the treacherous will be taken captive.

²⁷ A man of wickedness concocts evil, and his lips are like a scorching fire.

⁴ He who does evil listens to lips of wickedness, and the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief.

² The one basket had very good figs, like _⌊early figs_⌋,* and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because of their bad quality.

⁸ But like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality—for thus says Yahweh—so I will treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt. ⁹ And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them. ¹⁰ And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.'"*

³⁴ Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things when you* are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

³⁰ And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking _⌊perversions of the truth_⌋* in order to draw away the disciples after them.

¹³ And at the same time also, going around from house to house, they learn to be idle, and not only idle, but also gossipy and busybodies, saying the things that are not necessary.

¹⁰ For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ whom it is necessary to silence, whoever are ruining whole families by* teaching things which must not be taught for the sake of dishonest gain.

²¹ Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome* with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire! The world of unrighteousness,* the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire _⌊the course of human existence_⌋*, being set on fire by hell.