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Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man digs up evil,

and his speech

is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:27 BSB
  1. a Or and what is on his lips

Proverbs 16:27 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to James 3:6 (5 votes) and Proverbs 6:14 (4 votes). 7 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from 1 Samuel 25 to James 3.

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Which verses does Proverbs 16:27 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. James 3:65 votes

    The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

  2. Proverbs 6:144 votes

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

  3. 1 Samuel 25:173 votes

    Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

  4. Psalm 17:14–153 votes

    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 Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children. As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.

  5. Psalm 52:2–43 votes

    Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah …

  6. Psalm 57:43 votes

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

  7. Proverbs 6:123 votes

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

  8. Isaiah 5:183 votes

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

  9. Proverbs 2:42 votes

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

  10. 2 Samuel 20:11 vote

    Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”

  11. Habakkuk 2:131 vote

Which verses point to Proverbs 16:27?

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