Job 17:5
New Living Translation
5 They betray their friends for their own advantage,
so let their children faint with hunger.
Proverbs 20:19
New Living Translation
19 A gossip goes around telling secrets,
so don’t hang around with chatterers.
Psalm 12:2-3
New Living Translation
2 Neighbors lie to each other,
speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.
3 May the Lord cut off their flattering lips
and silence their boastful tongues.
Proverbs 29:5
New Living Translation
5 To flatter friends
is to lay a trap for their feet.
Job 32:21-22
New Living Translation
21 I won’t play favorites
or try to flatter anyone.
22 For if I tried flattery,
my Creator would soon destroy me.
Job 11:20
New Living Translation
20 But the wicked will be blinded.
They will have no escape.
Their only hope is death.”
1 Kings 11:12
New Living Translation
12 But for the sake of your father, David, I will not do this while you are still alive. I will take the kingdom away from your son.
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Deuteronomy 28:65
New Living Translation
65 There among those nations you will find no peace or place to rest. And the Lord will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair.
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Exodus 20:5
New Living Translation
5 You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.
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1 Thessalonians 2:5
New Living Translation
5 Never once did we try to win you with flattery, as you well know. And God is our witness that we were not pretending to be your friends just to get your money!
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Lamentations 4:17
New Living Translation
17 We looked in vain for our allies
to come and save us,
but we were looking to nations
that could not help us.
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