Proverbs 4:24 {25}
Good News Translation
Never say anything that isn't true. Have nothing to do with lies and misleading words.

New Revised Standard Version
Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

Contemporary English Version
Never tell lies or be deceitful in what you say.

New American Bible
Dishonest mouth put away from you, deceitful lips put far from you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.

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Job 11:14 If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:

Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ephesians 4:25-31 Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another. . . .

Colossians 3:8 But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

James 1:21,26 Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. . . .

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

Proverbs 8:8,13 They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. . . .

Proverbs 17:20 He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.

1 Timothy 6:5 Conflicts of men corrupted in mind and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.

Context
A Father's Instruction
23Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee. 24Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.25Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.…
Cross References
Proverbs 4:25
Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.

Proverbs 6:12
He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.

Proverbs 10:32
A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his lips and unwise.

Proverbs 4:23
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