FLATTERY

Passages on this topic · 63

• Genesis 33:10

  Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

• Judges 8:1

  The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.

• Judges 8:2

  He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

• Judges 8:3

  God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

• 2 Samuel 9:8

  He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

• 2 Samuel 14:17

  Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”

• 2 Samuel 14:18

  Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”

• 2 Samuel 14:19

  The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant;

• 2 Samuel 14:20

  to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 15:2

  Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 15:3

  Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

• 2 Samuel 15:4

  Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”

• 2 Samuel 15:5

  It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

• 2 Samuel 15:6

  Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 19:41

  Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

• 2 Samuel 19:42

  All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”

• 2 Samuel 19:43

  The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

• 1 Kings 1:42

  While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”

• 1 Kings 20:4

  The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”

• 1 Kings 22:13

  The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

• Job 17:5

  He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

• Job 32:21

  Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

• Job 32:22

  For I don’t know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

• Psalms 5:8

  Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

• Psalms 5:9

  For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

• Psalms 12:2

  Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

• Psalms 12:3

  May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

• Psalms 36:2

  For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

• Psalms 49:13

  This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

• Psalms 49:18

  Though while he lived he blessed his soul — and men praise you when you do well for yourself —

• Psalms 78:36

  But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

• Proverbs 5:3

  For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

• Proverbs 6:24

  to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

• Proverbs 7:5

  that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

• Proverbs 7:21

  With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

• Proverbs 14:20

  The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

• Proverbs 19:4

  Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

• Proverbs 19:6

  Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

• Proverbs 20:19

  He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

• Proverbs 22:16

  Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

• Proverbs 24:24

  He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous”; peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him —

• Proverbs 25:26

  Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

• Proverbs 26:28

  A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

• Proverbs 27:21

  The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

• Proverbs 28:23

  One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

• Proverbs 29:5

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

• Daniel 6:7

  All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

• Daniel 11:21

  In his place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

• Daniel 11:34

  Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.

• Luke 6:26

  Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

• Luke 20:21

  They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

• Acts 12:22

  The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

• Acts 24:2

  When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,

• Acts 24:3

  we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

• Acts 24:4

  But, that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

• Acts 24:10

  When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

• Acts 26:2

  “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

• Acts 26:3

  especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

• Galatians 1:10

  For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

• 1 Thessalonians 1:16
• 1 Thessalonians 2:4

  But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:5

  For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

• 1 Thessalonians 2:6

  nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.