A Sycophantic Crony

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Psalms 101:7 
No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.  

A close so-called friend behaving in an obsequious manner in order to gain an advantage, who is obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree, may not be useful in the short or long term.
Those who are in public stations are not thereby excused from care in governing their families.  They are to be concerned to set a good example of ruling their own houses well. Whenever a man has a house of his own, let him seek to have God to dwell with him and those may expect his presence, who walk with a perfect heart, in a perfect way.  

Here David resolves to practice no evil himself.  He further resolves not to keep bad servants, nor to employ those about him that are wicked.  He will not admit them into his family, lest they spread the infection of sin.  A froward heart, one that delights to be cross and perverse, is not fit for society, the bond of which is Christian love.  Nor will he countenance slanderers, those who take pleasure in wounding their neighbour's reputation. 

Also, God resists the proud, and false, deceitful people, who scruple not to tell lies, or commit frauds.  Let every one be zealous and diligent to reform his own heart and ways, and to do this early, ever mindful of that future, most awful morning, when the King of righteousness shall cut off all wicked doers from the heavenly Jerusalem.

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