Psalm 12:2

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Summary

Psalm 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Flattering

A double heart

1 Chronicles 12:33

General references

Bible References

Flattering

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they {deceive (LXX/NT)}.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

For there shall no more be any FALSE vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.

For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

A double heart

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, and were] not of double heart.

General references

And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man. Abide with me.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what thy great strength lays, and with what thou might be bound to afflict thee.

Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

And the populace shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man.