Proverbs 4:24
Remove from yourself a corrupt mouth, and let detracting lips be far from you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
In Context
23Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.
25Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids precede your steps.
Cross References
Job 11:14If you would send away from you the iniquity that is in your hand, and not let injustice remain in your tabernacle,
Proverbs 6:12An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the Lord hates evil. I detest arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
Ezekiel 18:31Cast all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, away from you, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. And then why should you die, O house of Israel?
Colossians 3:8But now you must set aside all these things: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, and indecent speech from your mouth.
James 1:21Because of this, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:21-27
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 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. 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. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and… Read the whole commentary →