Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Yehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ach'av served Ba`al a little; but Yehu will serve him much.
With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
*Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.