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Proverbs 6:12
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Proverbs 6:12
12¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
12¶ A naughtie person, a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 6:12
Bad, worthless, or wicked.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Perverse, untoward, self-willed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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Open the full verse study13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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Open the full verse study27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
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Open the full verse study24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
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Open the full verse study2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
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Open the full verse study7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
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Open the full verse study30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
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Open the full verse study4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
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Open the full verse study13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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Open the full verse study10For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
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Open the full verse study6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
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Open the full verse study6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
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Open the full verse study12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
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Open the full verse study14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
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Open the full verse study3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
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Open the full verse study7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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Open the full verse study3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
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Open the full verse study8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
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Open the full verse study28¶ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
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Open the full verse study21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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Open the full verse study2One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
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Open the full verse study8¶ And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
9And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
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