Proverbs 4:24
Put away from you a perverse mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
In Context
23Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
25Let yours eyes look right on, and let yours eyelids look straight before you.
Cross References
Job 11:14If iniquity be in yours hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tabernacles.
Proverbs 6:12A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby all of you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will all of you die, O house of Israel?
Colossians 3:8But now all of you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
James 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and abundance of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted word, (o. logos) 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 →