Proverbs 6:12 Cross References - MSB

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

²⁸ Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

³ For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

³ The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

² Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. ³ You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah ⁴ You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

⁷ See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

⁸ They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. ⁹ They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

¹² to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

²⁴ Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

¹⁴ With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

¹³ To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.

²⁷ A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

⁴ A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.

² One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

⁸ But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt. ⁹ I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them. ¹⁰ And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

³⁴ You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

³⁰ Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

¹³ At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

¹⁰ For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of (the) circumcision, ¹¹ who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

²¹ Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

⁶ The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.