Proverbs 26:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ A lying tongue hates those it wounds and crushes, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Common English Bible

²⁸ A lying tongue hates those it crushes; a flattering mouth causes destruction.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ A false tongue does not love truth. And a slippery mouth works ruin.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.

Proverbs 26:28 Cross References

Genesis 39:17

and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to insult me,

Proverbs 2:16

You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Proverbs 29:5

Whoever flatters a neighbor is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

Proverbs 6:24

to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

John 8:40

but now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.