Job 17:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Those who denounce friends for reward—
the eyes of their children will fail.(A)
Proverbs 20:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 A gossip reveals secrets;
therefore do not associate with a babbler.(A)
Psalm 12:2-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 They utter lies to each other;
with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.(A)
3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes great boasts,(B)
Proverbs 29:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Whoever flatters a neighbor
is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.
Job 32:21-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 I will not show partiality to any person
or use flattery toward anyone.(A)
22 For I do not know how to flatter—
or my Maker would soon put an end to me!(B)
Job 11:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail;
all way of escape will be lost to them,
and their hope is to breathe their last.”(A)
1 Kings 11:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Yet for the sake of your father David I will not do it in your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 28:65
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
65 Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.(A)
Read full chapter
Exodus 20:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me(A)
Read full chapter
1 Thessalonians 2:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,(A)
Read full chapter
Lamentations 4:17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 Our eyes failed, ever watching
vainly for help;
we were watching eagerly
for a nation that could not save.(A)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.