Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good
and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good
I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in
A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.