Proverbs 26:28

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

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  • Prov 29:5 : 5 ¶ A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
  • Luke 20:20-21 : 20 ¶ And they watched [him], and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor. 21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person [of any], but teachest the way of God truly:
  • John 8:40 : 40 ‹But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.›
  • John 8:44-49 : 44 ‹Ye are of› [your] ‹father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.› 45 ‹And because I tell› [you] ‹the truth, ye believe me not.› 46 ¶ ‹Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?› 47 ‹He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear› [them] ‹not, because ye are not of God.› 48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? 49 Jesus answered, ‹I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.›
  • John 10:32-33 : 32 Jesus answered them, ‹Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?› 33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
  • John 15:22-24 : 22 ‹If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.› 23 ‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.› 24 ‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
  • Prov 7:21-23 : 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

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