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diastrephō (dee-as-tref'-o) ▪ διαστρέφω ▪ G1294 ▪ Uses: 38

to distort, misinterpret, corrupt (Verb)

Matthew 17:17. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

Luke 9:41. And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.

Luke 23:2. And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

Acts 13:8. But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

Acts 13:10. And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Acts 20:30. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Philippians 2:15. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Exodus 5:4. And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

Exodus 23:6. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Numbers 15:39. And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Numbers 32:7. And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?

Deuteronomy 32:5. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Judges 5:6. In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

1 Kings 18:17. And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

1 Kings 18:18. And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

Job 37:12. And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Psalm 18:27. For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

Proverbs 4:27. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Proverbs 6:14. Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

Proverbs 8:13. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 10:9. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

Proverbs 11:20. They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

Proverbs 16:30. He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Ecclesiastes 1:15. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Ecclesiastes 7:13. Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 12:3. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

Sirach 11:34. Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.

Sirach 19:25. And if he be hindered from sinning for want of power, if he shall find opportunity to do evil, he will do it.

Sirach 27:23. Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation:

Isaiah 59:8. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

Ezekiel 13:18. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?

Ezekiel 13:22. Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

Ezekiel 16:34. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

Micah 3:9. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

Habakkuk 1:4. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

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