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Proverbs 26:28
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Proverbs 26:28
28A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
28A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruine.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 26:28
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Hates; regards with strong dislike, aversion, or enmity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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flattering
Pleasing to pride or vanity; gratifying to self-love.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
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Works; acts, labours, produces, accomplishes, or operates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Destruction, overthrow, decay, or the cause of such loss; also to destroy or fall into decay.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
47He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
49Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
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Open the full verse study20And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
21And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:
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Open the full verse study32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
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Open the full verse study5A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
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Open the full verse study24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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Open the full verse study21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
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Open the full verse study5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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Open the full verse study22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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Open the full verse study40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
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