Proverbs 4:24
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
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.
26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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 in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Read in contextJames 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.
Read in contextProverbs 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.
Read in contextEphesians 4:25–31
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Read in context1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Read in contextProverbs 6:12
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Read in contextJames 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Read in contextColossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
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