With many other words he testified ¹  and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse ²  generation!”

Even from among your own group ¹  men ²  will arise, teaching perversions of the truth ³  to draw the disciples away after them.

He said, “I will reject them, ¹  I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children ²  who show no loyalty.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world ¹ 

Jesus answered, ¹  “You ²  unbelieving ³  and perverse generation! How much longer ⁴  must I be with you? How much longer must I endure ⁵  you? ⁶  Bring him here to me.”

You prove to be reliable ¹  to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive ²  to one who is perverse. ³ 

All the words of my mouth are righteous; ¹  there is nothing in them twisted ²  or crooked.

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.

Saul became angry with Jonathan ¹  and said to him, “You stupid traitor! ²  Don’t I realize that to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother’s nakedness you have chosen this son of Jesse?

You prove to be reliable ¹  to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive ²  to one who is perverse. ³ 

he plots evil with perverse thoughts ¹  in his heart, he spreads contention ²  at all times.

The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing ¹  is perverse before me. ² 

The fear of the Lord is to hate ¹  evil; I hate arrogant pride ²  and the evil way and perverse utterances. ³ 

The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, ¹  but the one who is perverted in his ways ²  despises him.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. ¹  Who can understand it?

The Lord has made them undiscerning; ¹  they lead Egypt astray in all she does, so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit. ² 

and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness ¹  is a way of making a profit.

Is there any falsehood ¹  on my lips? Can my mouth ²  not discern evil things? ³ 

who delight ¹  in doing ²  evil, ³  they rejoice in perverse evil; ⁴ 

‘Surely such is the residence ¹  of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’” ²