Job 32:22
“For I do not know how to flatter, [in an appropriate way, and I fear that],
My Maker would soon take me away.
Job 17:5
“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.
Psalm 12:2-3
They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor [with smooth words intending to do harm]
Is spreading a net for his own feet.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For as you well know, we never came with words of flattery nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness—
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Bible References
I know not
“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.
They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
A man who flatters his neighbor [with smooth words intending to do harm]
Is spreading a net for his own feet.
General references
“Will you speak what is unjust for God,
And speak what is deceitful for Him?