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Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

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2 Samuel 14:17
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:20
Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

Job 17:5
He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

Job 32:22
For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.

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Proverbs 2:16
to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 7:22
He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

Proverbs 7:23
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

Daniel 11:32
He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong and take action.

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Proverbs 17:4
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Proverbs 26:20
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

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Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

Proverbs 26:26
His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

Luke 20:20
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

Luke 20:21
They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

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