Proverbs 26:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Proverbs 26:25 —

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← Proverbs 26:24 Proverbs 26:26 →

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 6:16-19
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: …
Psalms 28:3
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Jeremiah 12:6
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Matthew 24:23
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Jeremiah 9:2-8
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. …

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Anger Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling False Teachers

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 24-26)

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 profession of friendship, and the making of it subservient to the most malicious intentions. This is here spoken of as a common thing (Prov. 26:24):…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

25. Sentiment of Pr 26:24 carried out. seven abominations in his heart--that is, very many (compare Pr 24:16).