Proverbs 4:24
22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
23 Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
25 Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
26 Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
- KJV
- Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
- WEB
- Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
- ASV
- Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.
- DARBY
- Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
- BLB
- Turn away from you the crookedness of the mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
- ÅB
- Hold deg fra svikefulle ord, og la falske lepper være langt fra deg!
- OTB
- Fjern en bedragersk munn fra deg; hold korrupte ord borte fra dine lepper.
- B1930
- Hold dig fra svikefulle ord, og la falske leber være langt fra dig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.
Read in contextJames 1:26
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
Read in contextProverbs 8:13
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
Read in contextEphesians 4:25–31
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
Read in context1 Peter 2:1
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
Read in contextProverbs 6:12
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
Read in contextJames 1:21
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.
Read in contextColossians 3:8
But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
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