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 heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Psalm 28:3
Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
Psalm 62:4
They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Proverbs 20:19
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Ezekiel 12:24
For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Romans 16:18
For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
A double heart
1 Chronicles 12:33
Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, and were] not of double heart.
General references
Genesis 29:19
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
Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Acts 12:22
The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"