36 Verses About Perverse from 15 Books

1 Kings 8:47

yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;'

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

2 Chronicles 6:37

yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;'

2 Samuel 19:19

He said to the king, "Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

2 Samuel 24:17

David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house."

Acts 20:30

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Daniel 9:5

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;



Deuteronomy 32:5

They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

Deuteronomy 32:20

He said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Isaiah 19:14

the LORD 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.

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;

Job 9:20

Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

Luke 9:41

Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."

Matthew 17:17

Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."



Numbers 22:32

The angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:

Numbers 23:21

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. the LORD his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

Philippians 2:15

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Proverbs 2:12

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

Proverbs 2:14

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

Proverbs 4:24

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



Proverbs 6:12

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

Proverbs 6:14

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.



Proverbs 11:20

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

Proverbs 14:2

He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 17:20

One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Proverbs 28:6

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.



Psalms 101:4

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.





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