for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against Jehovah, then how much more after my death?

For I know this, that after my departure vicious wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my departure.

But he rejected the counsel which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus you should speak to the people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us; thus you shall say to them: My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins!

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was counseling him to do wickedly.

Therefore he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

With great persuasion she influences him; with her seductive lips she moves him.

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare; and does not realize that it is for his soul.

A gossip is a revealer of secrets; therefore do not fellowship with him who flatters with his lips.

As he who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.

A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth brings about ruin.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

And he will corrupt with flatteries those who act wickedly against the covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and will work.

If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his servants are wicked.