Proverbs 4:24 KJV
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Proverbs 4:24, King James Version
In context
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Cross-references
- James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
- Proverbs 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
- Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
- Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
- Proverbs 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.