Faithful are the wounds; they proceed from an upright, and truly loving, and faithful soul, and really promote the good of the person reproved. The wounds; the sharpest reproofs, which for the present wound his spirit and reputation. The kisses; all the fair speeches and outward professions of friendship. Are deceitful; or, are to be deprecated; are perfidious and pernicious, and such things as one may pray to God to be delivered from them. Or, are forced, like things which are procured with great difficulty, and many entreaties.
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Proverbs 27:6
6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.c