Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Flattering
A double heart
General references
Bible References
Flattering
Psalm 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalm 28:3
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.
Psalm 62:4
Surely they have plotted to cast him down from his great height; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their heart. Selah.
Proverbs 20:19
A gossip is a revealer of secrets; so do not mix with him who flatters with his lips.
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Ezekiel 12:24
For there shall never again be any vain vision nor slippery divination within the house of Israel.
Romans 16:18
For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.
A double heart
1 Chronicles 12:33
From Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all the weapons of war, fifty thousand who could keep rank. They were not of a double heart.
General references
Genesis 29:19
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.
Judges 16:6
And Delilah said to Samson, Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do You show me evil, and You look on toil? For destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention rises up.
Acts 12:22
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god and not of a man!