Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Proverbs 4:24 (NIV)
According to God’s Word perverse or corrupt talk is more than abusive or obscene language. The Hebrew words from which we get perverse and corrupt actually mean distortion, crookedness, false or deviation. They give the idea of turning aside. Perversity and corrupt talk mean speaking what’s contrary to what God says. It’s what the devil spoke to Adam and Eve. It was distorted, crooked, and false. What he spoke to them caused them to turn aside from what God had told them. It brought the distortion and crookedness that’s in the world which is sin, fear, confusion, worry, shame, condemnation, sickness, poverty, suffering, destruction and death. It’s a turning aside from what God says and gives which is Righteousness, life, peace, assurance, glory health, comfort, abundance, security and immortality.
When God says you’re His beloved child, He loves and cares for you, but you say you’re a nobody, unlovely, unworthy, no one loves or cares for you that’s perversity and corrupt talk. When God says you’re righteous, blessed, and favored through His Son Jesus Christ and what He did on the Cross but you say you’re still a sinner because you still fall into sin, you’re under a curse and rejected because things are not working out, that’s perversity and corrupt talk. Let your mouth be filled with God talk.