Proverbs 6:12 Cross References - WEB

¹² A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

²⁸ 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? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

³ For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

² Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. ³ You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. ⁴ You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

⁷ Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

⁸ They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression. ⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

¹² to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

²⁴ Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

¹⁴ in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

¹³ The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

²⁷ A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

⁴ An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

² One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

⁸ “‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. ⁹ I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them. ¹⁰ I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”

³⁴ You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

³⁰ Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

¹³ Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

¹⁰ For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

²¹ Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.