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Deceitful - Better, abundant. Very lavish is the enemy of the kisses that cover treachery, but lavish of them only. His courtesy goes no dee…

Faithful are the wounds of a friend— that is, the open rebuke of the previous verse, the smiting and

Beware of the flattering world, believer; beware of the flattering devil, and of the deceiving of the flesh. When things go smoothly with you, ther…

Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend
That is, friendly reproofs; which, though they may be severe, at least thought…

Plain and faithful rebukes are better, not only than secret hatred, but than love which flatters in sin, to the hurt of the soul.
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes