Verse 28

A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.
  • Luke 20:20-21 : 20 And, having watched `him', they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor, 21 and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;
  • John 8:40 : 40 and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;
  • John 8:44-49 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father. 45 `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me. 46 Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me? 47 he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.' 48 The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?' 49 Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;
  • John 10:32-33 : 32 Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?' 33 The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'
  • John 15:22-24 : 22 if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin. 23 `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; 24 if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
  • Prov 7:21-23 : 21 She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. 22 He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, 23 Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.