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Words of Wisdom
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He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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Job 17:5
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Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
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Job 32:21, 22
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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
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Psalms 5:9
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They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
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Psalms 12:2-5
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For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
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Psalms 36:2
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Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
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Psalms 78:36
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To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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Proverbs 2:16, 17
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To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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Proverbs 6:24
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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Proverbs 7:5
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
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Proverbs 7:21
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He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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Proverbs 20:19
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A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
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Proverbs 26:28
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He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
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Proverbs 28:23
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A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
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Proverbs 29:5
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For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
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Ezekiel 12:24
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And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
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Daniel 11:21
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And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
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Daniel 11:32
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Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
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Daniel 11:34
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For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
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1 Thessalonians 2:5, 6
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Flatter
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