Bible Dictionary: Flattery: The Wicked Use, to Others

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Psalm 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
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Psalm 12:2
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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Library

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... Flattery, beauty of pretended religion, false witnessing and charging of ... in his hand,
can make no use of it ... but to hurt himself and others, so wicked men's good ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures ...
... hear anything in their courts but mere flattery, the more ... of the apostle, to separate
from the wicked, when it ... Where its use is not well known it is easy to ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 12 of the discipline.htm

How Ahab when He had Taken Jezebel to Wife Became More Wicked than ...
... He imitated them in their wicked courses, and in their ... But Elijah, without any flattery,
said that he was himself the ... and how, when he had made use of gentle ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 13 how ahab when.htm

The Ninth Commandment
... (3) They are reproved who are so wicked as to ... are slandered, or falsely accused,
make a good use of it. ... As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 9 the ninth commandment.htm

From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus.
... Flattery is the bane of friendship. ... things were perhaps incredible to him and to
others, and unexpected ... as obtaining from God, and making a wicked use of what ...
/.../who is the rich man that shall be saved/i from the latin translation of.htm

the Use of Humiliation
... is not versed in complimenting, and skilled in flattery above the ... the use of it,
yea, that you use it not ... it will bring upon us the displeasure of the wicked. ...
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The Will.
... you, and you have overcome the wicked one." Again ... of learning until its practical
use becomes necessary ... whose affection officiousness, and flattery, will perhaps ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter ix the will.htm

Earnest Expostulation
... This is a vile flattery of your wicked hearts; but ... I will not enlarge and use many
words, for I am myself weary of words: I want to persuade you even with ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 29 1883/earnest expostulation.htm

1 Timothy ii. 4-Jan
... It is not therefore flattery, but agreeable to the rules of justice. ... You then are
wicked in the degree that he was excellent. ... For of what use is it? ...
/.../homily vi 1 timothy ii.htm

Of Porphyry's Epistle to Anebo, in which He Asks for Information ...
... ground that it is by the use of stones ... rashness, delight in sacrificial odors, are
taken with flattery. ... should be commanded to perform the wicked desires of men ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 11 of porphyrys epistle to.htm

Subtopics

Flattery by Darius's Courtiers

Flattery by False Prophets

Flattery by Gideon

Flattery by Herod Agrippa Ii

Flattery by Israel and Judah

Flattery by Jacob

Flattery by Mephibosheth