Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 17:20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
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He that hath a froward heart   Heb. The froward of heart. Pro 3:32; Pro 6:12-15; Pro 8:13; Psa 18:26
and he   Pro 10:10,14,31; Pro 18:6,7; Ecc 10:12; Jam 3:6-8
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He that hath a froward heart
Pro 3:32 For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his secret [is] with the righteous.
Pro 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Pro 6:13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Pro 6:14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Pro 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Pro 8:13 The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Psa 18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
and he
Pro 10:10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
Pro 10:14 Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.
Pro 10:31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Pro 18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Pro 18:7 A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
Ecc 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Jam 3:6 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.
Jam 3:7 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:
Jam 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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