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    1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    2. He is left to stew in the perverse juices of random fate while the detectives consult their superior


    3. he that is perverse in his way though he be rich


    4. So, in adherence to some kind of perverse morality, these little menaces were never deployed as a long-range offensive weapon


    5. To keep the surviving population hidden underground seemed perverse; but she wasn't even sure if the incomers would be told


    6. one reader wrote to complain that the SAP took an “unnatural and perverse delight” in knocking on the windows of cars to see (he even used the words peeping Tom) what the couple were up to


    7. So it was not for our own perverse amusement as this particular long haired liberal reader implied


    8. It was not intended, however, to undermine, through judicial fiat or perverse legal interpretation, the freedoms that every American should properly enjoy without exception


    9. Whether or not ―hate crimes‖ have increased in recent years as a matter of fact or (by definition) is not necessarily a function of diverse impressions, (although they might be) especially when there is nothing of material value to be gained other than the perverse enjoyment derived by inflicting harm on someone considered socially or morally offensive or inferior in some manner or for no other (apparent) reason than someone‘s race or ethnicity


    10. To this most foolish and perverse generation:Therefore, thus declares The Lord,

    11. YOU ARE PERvERSE IN MY SIGHT! A WHOLE GENERATION OF ARROGANT AND HIGH-MINDED PEOPLE! Says The Lord


    12. Yes, they have pointed the finger at all these perverse doctrines and are unsettled by all these detestable traditions, for they are The Called Out


    13. Months later, Spain sent a contingent of 1300 soldiers to help in the reconstruction of that country which had just rid itself of a perverse and bloody dictatorship


    14. Pain and indignation may have blinded momentarily the Spanish voters, but by punishing the government, in fact they have also congratulated, applauded and emboldened those perverse terrorists whose only purpose consists in causing devastation and eliminating lives


    15. The state-owned grandiose and expensive infrastructures of the countries, international aid organizations and the organizations of the Third Sector of the civil society (non-profit) seek to solve serious social problems that last long per millenniums, however they don’t obtain the definitive solution to the human beings’ basic necessities that become excluded in its majority for imposition of the perverse existent socioeconomic model in the world that privileges minorities and it impedes that all the citizens live with dignity and well-being in any country


    16. This perverse socioeconomic model creates the scarcity in the middle of the abundance, for instance, the world hunger in the middle of the abundance of produced foods; the lack of income in the middle of the abundance of available capital, the lack of products or services in the middle of the abundance of wastes or idle stocks, among others


    17. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse is carried headlong


    18. stand; Man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised


    19. but he who is perverse in his ways despises him; In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise shall preserve


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

    21. walks in his uprightness, than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich


    22. 14 The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of it, and they have caused Egypt to


    23. Thorns: A curse; something that hinders through trial; gossip; perverse occurrences; persecution; life’s cares and concerns; place of defense


    24. For what has he done to deserve such random cruelty? What did he do to he born into such a hell? Where is God in all this vileness? And, in its usually perverse way, the universe answers the puppy's plea for clemency with more pointless cruelty


    25. 32 And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you hit your ass these three times? note, I went out to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me:


    26. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation


    27. Pro 19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool


    28. Jesus answered and said O faithless and perverse generation till when shall I be with you? and till when shall I bear with you? bring your son in here; And he brought him to him and when the spirit saw him immediately it beat him about; and he fell on the ground and was raging and foaming; And Jesus asked his father How long is the time during which he has been soe He said to him From his youth until now


    29. ” And with many other words he was urgently warning and urging [them], saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!” -- Acts 2:39-40


    30. 3 And again in another place he says With the guiltless man you shall be guiltless and with the excellent you shall be excellent and with him who is crooked you shall be perverse

    31. Perverse Styles ‘R’ Us store


    32. whether this same perverse concept was at play that afternoon or


    33. Johnson in the 1964 Presidential election, but nonetheless he started the groundswell of those who believe in the merits of the Constitution as written and who believe in opposing the perverse agenda of the ‘liberals


    34. admit that we have fully expressed the perverse mechanism of a self-fulfilling


    35. in this perverse goal?


    36. “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate


    37. The culprits have been previously discussed on my blog, for instance: perverse


    38. And of course Calvin seemed to actually be considering it! "Well, regardless of whatever perverse idea Raidan has, we cannot board that ship


    39. I beg of you, free yourselves of the perverse couples you have within you,


    40. This creates a perverse dynamic where the roles of

    41. victim and perpetrator alternate continually, and the result of this perverse


    42. What a macabre poet would compose such perverse verses? I commented the Genie that I did not want to frighten my sisters, so that we should handle this matter with subtlety


    43. She invoked to the dark forces of Zoroastro, the Enchantress Zarnia and the Magician Abramelim, summoned to their marvelous and perverse powers so that the potion lull the senses of the young woman and preventing her to locate the counter-conjuration, maintaining her in a dreaming state, at least until the five days had passed and the demons arrive


    44. -I believe you have something for me, don’t you dear? - Said with a bulging perverse ultra-graves voice


    45. The greater the dissatisfaction, the more perverse the acts until only cruelty, pain and suffering can trigger release


    46. It assimilates intelligence, all forms of it, and spits it back out in a perverse duplication of itself


    47. But anything is possible (yes, even that) and occasionally life coalesces into pools of perverse organic splendor


    48. “You are perverse,” he said


    49. ‘To get my money back,’ were his orders with the ominous stipulation of, ‘leave the rest of it to the professionals, or you may get hurt…’ Tim was convinced that the Commander had been aware of their efforts in the past few weeks to stop him bringing the computer system online and figured bringing them along was some sort of perverse loyalty test


    50. The most interesting ones were the wild erotic letters whose suggestiveness was enough to corrupt even the most perverse kind of minds











































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    Synonyms for "perverse"

    depraved perverse perverted reprobate contrary obstinate wayward dogged obdurate headstrong intractable persistent pigheaded stubborn cantankerous contumacious disobedient bad distorted sinful wicked

    "perverse" definitions

    marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict


    resistant to guidance or discipline


    deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good