Flattery

A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit, — read the full passage →

Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles, — read the full passage →

For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart <FI>is<Fi> mischiefs, An open grave <FI>is<Fi> their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain, — read the full passage →

Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

For he made <FI>it<Fi> smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.

And--they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak. — read the full passage →

`Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you--for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God <FI>is<Fi> witness!)

and the populace were shouting, `The voice of a god, and not of a man;'

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee--My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going. — read the full passage →

`And stood up on his station hath a despicable one, and they have not given unto him the honour of the kingdom, and he hath come in quietly, and hath strengthened the kingdom by flatteries. — read the full passage →

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart <FI>is<Fi> war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they <FI>are<Fi> drawn <FI>swords<Fi> .

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

A traveller to life <FI>is<Fi> he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

And in their stumbling, they are helped--a little help, and joined to them have been many with flatteries.

Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors, to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict, that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions.

She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →

And those acting wickedly <FI>against<Fi> the covenant, he defileth by flatteries; and the people knowing their God are strong, and have wrought.

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. — read the full passage →

Sayings of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.

For there is no more any vain vision, and flattering divination, In the midst of the house of Israel.

A refining pot <FI>is<Fi> for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him--even thou. — read the full passage →

Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.

and Absalom hath risen early, and stood by the side of the way of the gate, and it cometh to pass, every man who hath a pleading to come unto the king for judgment, that Absalom calleth unto him, and saith, `Of what city <FI>art<Fi> thou?' and he saith, `Of one of the tribes of Israel <FI>is<Fi> thy servant.' — read the full passage →

and thy maid-servant saith, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger of God so <FI>is<Fi> my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil; and Jehovah thy God is with thee.' — read the full passage →

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts, — read the full passage →

And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me--all of them--as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah. — read the full passage →

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver <FI>with<Fi> his lips make not thyself surety.

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

His days are few, his oversight another taketh,

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. --A Psalm of David. Only--toward God <FI>is<Fi> my soul silent, From Him <FI>is<Fi> my salvation. — read the full passage →

By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit. — read the full passage →

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak. — read the full passage →

O Jehovah, lead me in Thy righteousness, Because of those observing me, Make straight before me Thy way, — read the full passage →

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse <FI>him<Fi> , saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought, — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better. — read the full passage →

Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou <FI>art<Fi> righteous,' Peoples execrate him--nations abhor him.

There is a way right before a man, And its latter end--ways of death.

To the Overseer, on the octave. --A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men: — read the full passage →

For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.

and any curse there shall not be any more, and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him,

`And the ten horns that thou sawest, are ten kings, who a kingdom did not yet receive, but authority as kings the same hour do receive with the beast,

and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit; — read the full passage →

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

`Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;

Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing. — read the full passage →

A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, <FI>Is<Fi> the righteous falling before the wicked.

For better <FI>that<Fi> he hath said to thee, `Come thou up hither,' Than <FI>that<Fi> he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. — read the full passage →

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil <FI>is<Fi> her mouth,

Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.

This their way <FI>is<Fi> folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

To the Overseer. --By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes, — read the full passage →

And the messenger who hath gone to call Micaiah hath spoken unto him, saying, `Lo, I pray thee, the words of the prophets, with one mouth, <FI>are<Fi> good towards the king; let it be, I pray thee, thy word as the word of one of them--and thou hast spoken good.'

And the king of Israel answereth and saith, `According to thy word, my lord, O king: I <FI>am<Fi> thine, and all that I have.'

And, lo, all the men of Israel are coming unto the king, and they say unto the king, `Wherefore have they stolen thee--our brethren, the men of Judah?' (and they bring the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him). — read the full passage →

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

in every thing give thanks, for this <FI>is<Fi> the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.

And Paul answered--the governor having beckoned to him to speak--`Knowing <FI>that<Fi> for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts.

Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich <FI>are<Fi> many.

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof <FI>is<Fi> brutish.

He is yet speaking, and lo, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest hath come in, and Adonijah saith, `Come in, for a man of valour thou <FI>art<Fi> , and thou bearest good tidings.'

And he boweth himself, and saith, `What <FI>is<Fi> thy servant, that thou hast turned unto the dead dog--such as I?'

And the men of Ephraim say unto him, `What <FI>is<Fi> this thing thou hast done to us--not to call for us when thou didst go to fight with Midian?' and they strive with him severely; — read the full passage →

And Jacob saith, `Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, then thou hast received my present from my hand, because that I have seen thy face, as the seeing of the face of God, and thou art pleased with me;

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.

`And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, my standing <FI>is<Fi> for a strengthener, and for a stronghold to him; — read the full passage →

but I declare to thee that which is noted down in the Writing of Truth, and there is not one strengthening himself with me, concerning these, except Michael your head.

`And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed--to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.

Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,