Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

Cross References (11)

  • James 3:6 (5)

    The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the cou

  • Proverbs 6:14 (4)

    With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

  • Isaiah 5:18 (3)

    Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

  • Psalms 57:4 (3)

    My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues ar

  • Psalms 17:14–15 (3)

    from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of You

  • Proverbs 6:12 (3)

    A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

  • Psalms 52:2–4 (3)

    Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

  • 1 Samuel 25:17 (3)

    Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a

  • Proverbs 2:4 (2)

    if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

  • Habakkuk 2:13 (1)

    Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselv

  • 2 Samuel 20:1 (1)

    Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted