The King James Version Bible

Proverbs 17:20

He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Cross References

  1. With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
  2. For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
  3. A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
  4. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
  5. He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
  6. Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
  7. The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
  8. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
  9. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
  10. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.