Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
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Job 17:5
Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children's eyesight fail.
Job 32:21
I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward anyone.
Psalm 12:2
People speak lies to one another. They speak with flattering lips and with double-heart. (Double Heart: They say one thing but mean another.)
Proverbs 20:19
A gossip reveals secrets. So avoid a man who speaks flattering words.
Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Proverbs 28:23
He who reproves a man later find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.
Isaiah 30:10
They say to the seers: Do not see the future. They say to those who have visions: 'Do not have visions that tell us what is right. Tell us what we want to hear. Prophesy illusions.
Matthew 22:16
They sent their disciples with the Herodians to Jesus. They said: Teacher we know you are truthful. You teach the way of God in truth. And you are not partial to the influence of men.
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.
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Ezekiel 12:24
There will no longer be any false visions or flattering fortune telling to the people.
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our presentation (exhortation) is not based on error, or of uncleanness, or in deceit.