Proverbs 26:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh 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 spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 29:5

A man that flattereth his neighbour Spreadeth a net for his steps.

Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the stranger which flattereth with her words.

John 8:40

But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.