Proverbs 26:25
When he speaketh fair, believe him not! For there are seven abominations in his heart.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
In Context
24The hater dissembleth with his lips, And layeth up deceit within him.
26His hatred is covered by deceit; His wickedness shall be revealed in the great assembly.
Cross References
Psalms 28:3Draw me not away with the impious, and with evil-doers, Who speak peace to their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts!
Jeremiah 9:2O that I had a traveller's lodge in the wilderness, That I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers; An assembly of revolters.
Micah 7:5Trust ye not in a friend! Put no confidence in a guide! From her that lieth in thy bosom Keep the doors of thy mouth!
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:25-27
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation. There is cause to complain, not only of the want of sincerity in men's profession of friendship, and that they do not love so well as they pretend nor will serve their friends so much as they promise, but, which is much worse, of wicked designs in the… Read the whole commentary →