Proverbs 4:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.

New Living Translation
Avoid all perverse talk; stay away from corrupt speech.

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

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

New American Standard Bible
Rid yourself of a deceitful mouth And keep devious speech far from you.

NASB 1995
Put away from you a deceitful mouth And put devious speech far from you.

NASB 1977
Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put devious lips far from you.

Amplified Bible
Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth, And put devious lips far from you.

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly, and don’t let your lips talk deviously.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don't let your mouth speak dishonestly, and don't let your lips talk deviously.

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

Good News Translation
Never say anything that isn't true. Have nothing to do with lies and misleading words.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Remove dishonesty from your mouth. Put deceptive speech far away from your lips.

International Standard Version
Never talk deceptively and don't keep company with people whose speech is corrupt.

NET Bible
Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

New King James Version
Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse lips far from you.

King James 2000 Bible
Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

New Heart English Bible
Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

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

American King James Version
Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

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

A Faithful Version
Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and devious lips put far from you.

Darby Bible Translation
Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Put away from thee a frowarde mouth, and let the lippes of slaunder be farre from thee.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Put awaye from the a frowarde mouth, and let the lippes of slaunder be farre from the.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Turn aside a contrary mouth from you, "" And put perverse lips far from you,

Young's Literal Translation
Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

Smith's Literal Translation
Turn away from thee perverseness of mouth, and frowardness of lips remove far oft from thee.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Remove from yourself a corrupt mouth, and let detracting lips be far from you.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Cause the perverse mouth to pass from you, and put far from your lips the thought of depravity.

Lamsa Bible
Put away from you a perverse mouth, and the counsel of deceit put far from your lips.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Put away from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Remove from thee a froward mouth, and put far away from thee unjust lips.
















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