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Perverseness in the Bible refers to a deliberate and obstinate deviation from what is considered morally right or good. It is often associated with a willful turning away from God's commandments and a rejection of His truth. The concept of perverseness is frequently addressed in Scripture, highlighting the spiritual and moral dangers it poses to individuals and communities.

Old Testament References

In the Old Testament, perverseness is often linked with the heart and speech. Proverbs 11:3 states, "The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them." Here, perverseness is contrasted with integrity, suggesting that a perverse heart leads to destruction. Similarly, Proverbs 4:24 advises, "Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech." This highlights the importance of maintaining purity in speech as a reflection of one's inner moral state.

The prophet Isaiah also addresses perverseness, particularly in the context of Israel's rebellion against God. Isaiah 30:12-13 warns, "Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: 'Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit, this iniquity will be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant.'" Here, perverseness is associated with deceit and rebellion, leading to inevitable judgment.

New Testament References

In the New Testament, perverseness is often seen in the context of false teachings and moral corruption. The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Philippians, warns against those who are "crooked and perverse" (Philippians 2:15). He encourages believers to "shine as lights in the world," contrasting the purity of Christian conduct with the perverseness of the surrounding culture.

The book of Romans also addresses the issue of perverseness, particularly in the context of humanity's rejection of God's truth. Romans 1:28-29 describes how God gave people over to a "depraved mind" because they did not see fit to acknowledge Him. This depravity is characterized by a list of vices, including "wickedness, greed, and depravity," illustrating the moral decay that results from turning away from God.

Moral and Spiritual Implications

Perverseness is not merely a matter of external actions but is deeply rooted in the heart and mind. It reflects a fundamental rejection of God's authority and a preference for one's own desires and understanding. This is why Scripture repeatedly calls for a transformation of the heart and mind, urging believers to align themselves with God's will and truth.

The Bible warns that perverseness leads to spiritual blindness and separation from God. It is a path that ultimately results in judgment and destruction, as seen in the repeated calls to repentance and the dire consequences for those who persist in their perverse ways. Believers are called to guard their hearts and minds, to speak truthfully, and to live uprightly, reflecting the holiness and righteousness of God in a world that often embraces perverseness.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The quality or state of being perverse.

Greek

4641. sklerokardia -- hardness of heart
... sklerokardia Phonetic Spelling: (sklay-rok-ar-dee'-ah) Short Definition: hardness
of heart Definition: hardness of heart, perverseness, obstinacy. ...
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4643. sklerotes -- hardness
... sklerotes Phonetic Spelling: (sklay-rot'-ace) Short Definition: hardness of heart
Definition: hardness, hardness of heart, obstinacy, perverseness. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4297. mutteh -- that which is perverted, perverted justice
... perverseness. From natah; a stretching, ie Distortion (figuratively, iniquity) --
perverseness. see HEBREW natah. 4296, 4297. mutteh. 4298 . Strong's Numbers
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5766. evel -- injustice, unrighteousness
... unjustly (2), unrighteousness (1), wrong (2). iniquity, perverseness, unjustly,
unrighteousness, wickedness. Or lavel {aw'-vel}; and ...
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5558. seleph -- crookedness, crooked dealing
... perverseness. From calaph; distortion, ie (figuratively) viciousness -- perverseness.
see HEBREW calaph. 5557, 5558. seleph. 5559 . Strong's Numbers.
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5999. amal -- trouble, labor, toil
... grievance, iniquity, labor, mischief, misery, painful, perverseness, sorrow,.
From amal; toil, ie Wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. ...
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5758. avayah -- iniquity
... iniquity. (Aramaic) from a root corresponding to avah; perverseness -- iniquity.
see HEBREW avah. 5757, 5758. avayah. 5759 . Strong's Numbers.
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3868. luz -- to turn aside, depart
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to turn aside, depart NASB Word Usage depart
(1), devious (3), guile (1), vanish (1). depart, froward, perverseness. ...
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3891. lazuth -- deviation, crookedness
... Word Origin from luz Definition deviation, crookedness NASB Word Usage devious
(1). perverse. From luwz; perverseness -- perverse. see HEBREW luwz. 3890, 3891 ...
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5932. alvah -- iniquity
... Word Origin the same as avlah, qv. iniquity For evel; moral perverseness -- iniquity.
see HEBREW evel. 5931, 5932. alvah. 5933 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

But that I May Fully Show the Perverseness of My Accusers...
... Address 56: But that I may fully show the perverseness of my accusers?
But that I may fully show the perverseness of my accusers ...
/.../address 56 0 0 but that i.htm

It Would be Great Folly and Perverseness, to Charge Me Here with ...
... Address 71: It would be great folly and perverseness, to charge me here
with slighting? It would be great folly and perverseness ...
/.../address 71 0 0 it would be.htm

Habakkuk's Rhapsody of the Chaldeans
... I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save. Why dost thou
shew me iniquity, and cause me to look upon perverseness? ...
/.../habakkuks rhapsody of the chaldeans.htm

Athanasius, Encouraged by the Letter of Constantine the Younger ...
... the expositor of the venerated law, was sent for a while unto the Gauls, lest he
should sustain some irreparable injury from the perverseness of his blood ...
/.../chapter iii athanasius encouraged by the.htm

A Generous and Heavenly Principle
... Whether men's wickedness in the present age, or my own perverseness, or the fall
of Adam; He intended me all the joys of Paradise, and all the honours in the ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/88 it is a generous.htm

Discourse III.
... it is written even of us, In Him we live and move and have our being [2794] ?' And
this state of mind is consistent with their perverseness, who think God to ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/discourse iii.htm

Whether Venial Sin is Fittingly Condivided with Mortal Sin?
... i, 3,4). Therefore whoever sins enjoys a mutable good. Now "to enjoy what we should
use is human perverseness," as Augustine again says (Qq. lxxxiii, qu.30). ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether venial sin is fittingly.htm

On the Free Will of Man and Its Powers
... IX. To the darkness of the mind succeeds the perverseness of the affections and
of the heart, according to which it hates and has an aversion to that which is ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/disputation 11 on the free.htm

All Association with Idols is to be Avoided.
... 3047] For the stars and the luminaries were given to men to shine upon them, but
not for worship; although the Israelites, by the perverseness of their temper ...
/.../constitutions of the holy apostles/sec ii all association with idols.htm

An Humble, Affectionate, and Earnest Address to the Clergy
... Address 56: But that I may fully show the perverseness of my accusers? Address
57: "You shall see reason possessed of all that belongs to it.? ...
/.../law/an humble affectionate and earnest address to the clergy/

Thesaurus

Perverseness (46 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Perverseness (46 Occurrences). ... Numbers 23:21 He has not
seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. ...
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Grievance (7 Occurrences)
... 1:3, "Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance?" (the Revised
Version (British and American) "look upon perverseness"); `amal is also ...
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Frowardness (4 Occurrences)
... from haphakh, to turn about) in Proverbs 2:14, delight in the frowardness of the
wicked, the American Standard Revised Version the perverseness of evil, margin ...
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Perversion (13 Occurrences)
... tongue. (DBY). Proverbs 15:4 A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness
therein is a wound to the spirit. (See NAS). Ecclesiastes ...
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Wickedness (232 Occurrences)
... in thought, carnality or lust harbored: "And if a man take a wife and her mother,
it is wickedness" (Leviticus 20:14); `awlah, "perverseness," "Neither shall ...
/w/wickedness.htm - 39k

Perverse (55 Occurrences)
... gained by the Revised Version (British and American) "wickedness." In Ezekiel
9:9, "wresting of judgment" is perhaps too concrete, and "perverseness" is kept ...
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Iniquity (299 Occurrences)
... Etymologically, it is customary to explain it as meaning literally "crookedness,"
"perverseness," ie evil regarded as that which is not straight or upright ...
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Perversely (15 Occurrences)

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Planted (105 Occurrences)
... for My people, for Israel, and have planted it, and it hath tabernacled in its place,
and it is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness do not add ...
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Vomit (12 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 19:14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and
they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man ...
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Perverseness (46 Occurrences)

Ephesians 4:17
Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,
(WEY)

Numbers 23:21
He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

2 Samuel 7:10
and I have appointed a place for My people, for Israel, and have planted it, and it hath tabernacled in its place, and it is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness do not add to afflict it any more, as in the beginning,
(YLT)

1 Chronicles 17:9
And I have prepared a place for My people Israel, and planted it, and it hath dwelt in its place, and is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness add not to wear it out as at first,
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 19:7
and now, let fear of Jehovah be upon you, observe and do, for there is not with Jehovah our God perverseness, and acceptance of faces, and taking of a bribe.'
(YLT)

Job 5:16
And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
(YLT)

Job 6:29
Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness 'is' in it.
(YLT)

Job 6:30
Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
(YLT)

Job 11:14
If iniquity 'is' in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.
(YLT)

Job 13:7
For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
(YLT)

Job 15:16
Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
(YLT)

Job 27:4
My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
(YLT)

Job 34:10
Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And 'from' the Mighty to do perverseness:
(YLT)

Psalms 7:14
Lo, he travaileth 'with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
(YLT)

Psalms 7:16
Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
(YLT)

Psalms 10:7
Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue 'is' perverseness and iniquity,
(YLT)

Psalms 10:14
Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave 'it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.
(YLT)

Psalms 43:1
Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,
(YLT)

Psalms 55:10
By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness 'are' in its midst,
(YLT)

Psalms 73:16
And I think to know this, Perverseness it 'is' in mine eyes,
(YLT)

Psalms 89:22
An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.
(YLT)

Psalms 92:15
To declare that upright 'is' Jehovah my rock, And there is no perverseness in Him!
(YLT)

Psalms 94:20
Is a throne of mischief joined 'with' Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
(YLT)

Psalms 101:4
A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know no evil thing.
(See RSV)

Psalms 140:9
The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.
(YLT)

Proverbs 2:14
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
(WEB ASV RSV NIV)

Proverbs 4:24
Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
(DBY)

Proverbs 6:12
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking 'with' perverseness of mouth,
(YLT)

Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
(WEB ASV)

Proverbs 10:32
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable; But the mouth of the wicked 'speaketh' perverseness.
(ASV YLT)

Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Proverbs 15:4
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Proverbs 22:8
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
(YLT)

Proverbs 24:2
For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.
(YLT)

Isaiah 10:1
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;
(ASV YLT)

Isaiah 19:14
Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
(WEB ASV DBY YLT)

Isaiah 29:16
Oh your perverseness! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?
(DBY)

Isaiah 30:12
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Isaiah 59:4
There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
(YLT)

Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
(See JPS)

Ezekiel 9:9
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Hosea 10:9
From the days of Gibeah thou hast sinned, O Israel, There they have stood, Not overtake them in Gibeah doth battle, Because of sons of perverseness.
(YLT)

Habakkuk 1:3
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.
(ASV)

Zephaniah 3:5
Jehovah 'is' righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.
(YLT)

Malachi 2:6
The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity.
(YLT)

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