Proverbs 26:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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