Proverbs 4:24

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

BSB · Berean Standard Bible

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Note a froward…: Heb. frowardness of mouth and perverseness of lips

KJV · King James Version

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

WEB · World English Bible

Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.

ASV · American Standard Version

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.

Put: Job 11:14; Ezekiel 18:31; Ephesians 4:25–31; Colossians 3:8; James 1:21, 26; 1 Peter 2:1
a, etc. Heb. frowardness of mouth, and perverseness of lips: Proverbs 8:8, 13; Proverbs 17:20; 1 Timothy 6:5