Psalm 12:2
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2 They utter lies to each other;
with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.(A)
Romans 16:18
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18 For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites,[a] and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.(A)
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Psalm 41:6
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6 And when they come to see me, they utter empty words
while their hearts gather mischief;
when they go out, they tell it abroad.(A)
Jeremiah 9:8
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8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
it speaks deceit through the mouth.
They all speak friendly words to their neighbors
but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.(A)
Psalm 10:7
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7 Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.(A)
James 1:8
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7,8 For the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
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Psalm 144:8
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8 whose mouths speak lies
and whose right hands are false.(A)
Psalm 28:3
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3 Do not drag me away with the wicked,
with those who are workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors
while mischief is in their hearts.(A)
Psalm 5:9
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9 For there is no truth in their mouths;
their hearts are destruction;
their throats are open graves;
they flatter with their tongues.(A)
1 Thessalonians 2:5
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5 As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,(A)
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Ezekiel 12:24
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24 For there shall no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.(A)
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Jeremiah 9:2-6
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2 [a]O that I had in the desert
a traveler’s lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all adulterers,
a band of traitors.(A)
3 They bend their tongues like bows;
they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, says the Lord.(B)
4 Beware of your neighbors,
and put no trust in any of your kin,
for all your kin are supplanters,
and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.(C)
5 They all deceive their neighbors,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongues to speak lies;
they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.[b](D)
6 Oppression upon oppression, deceit[c] upon deceit!
They refuse to know me, says the Lord.(E)
Proverbs 29:5
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5 Whoever flatters a neighbor
is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.
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