Flattery

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; — read the full passage →

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. — read the full passage →

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: — read the full passage →

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. — read the full passage →

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. — read the full passage →

And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. — read the full passage →

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. — read the full passage →

And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. — read the full passage →

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. — read the full passage →

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. — read the full passage →

Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee. — read the full passage →

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; — read the full passage →

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. — read the full passage →

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. — read the full passage →

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. — read the full passage →

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. — read the full passage →

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. — read the full passage →

Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence, — read the full passage →

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. — read the full passage →

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. — read the full passage →

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. — read the full passage →

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:

Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. — read the full passage →

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. — read the full passage →

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. — read the full passage →

And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.

And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.

And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David’s men with him, over Jordan? — read the full passage →

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.

And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply. — read the full passage →

And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. — read the full passage →

But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.