Proverbs 2:12
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12 To deliver you from the way of evil and the evil men, from men who speak perverse things and are liars,
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Proverbs 4:24
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24 Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you.
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Proverbs 6:12
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12 A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth.
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Proverbs 8:8
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8 All the words of my mouth are righteous (upright and in right standing with God); there is nothing contrary to truth or crooked in them.
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Proverbs 8:13
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13 The reverent fear and worshipful awe of the Lord [includes] the hatred of evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and perverted and twisted speech I hate.
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Proverbs 10:31-32
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31 The mouths of the righteous (those harmonious with God) bring forth skillful and godly Wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut down [like a barren and rotten tree].
32 The lips of the [uncompromisingly] righteous know [and therefore utter] what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked knows [and therefore speaks only] what is obstinately willful and contrary.
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Proverbs 16:30
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30 He who shuts his eyes to devise perverse things and who compresses his lips [as if in concealment] brings evil to pass.
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Proverbs 17:20
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20 He who has a wayward and crooked mind finds no good, and he who has a willful and contrary tongue will fall into calamity.(A)
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Psalm 34:13
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13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
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