Job 17:5
"He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."
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- Psalms 12:2
"They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:19
"He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 29:5
"A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 20:5
"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 11:12
"Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son."
Read in chapter → - Job 11:20
"But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 28:65
"And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:"
Read in chapter → - Job 32:21
"Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 4:17
"As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us."
Read in chapter → - 1 Thessalonians 2:5
"For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:"
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