Bible verses about "flattery" | LXX2012

³ Look on me, listen to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;

⁶ The wounds of a friend are more to be trusted than the spontaneous kisses of an enemy.

⁹ For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is vain; their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit.

²¹ For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal. ²² For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.

²³ He that reproves a man's ways shall have more favor than he that flatters with the tongue.

²⁴ A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, but in his heart he contrives deceit. ²⁵ Though [your] enemy entreat you with a loud voice, consent not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. ²⁶ He that hides enmity frames deceit: but being easily discerned, exposes his own sins in the public assemblies. ²⁷ He that digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it: and he that rolls a stone, rolls it upon himself. ²⁸ A lying tongue hates the truth; and an unguarded mouth causes tumults.

⁵ He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, entangles his own feet in it.