Flattery

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

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart. — read the full passage →

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

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man. — read the full passage →

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

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, — read the full passage →

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

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

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

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.

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

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and take action.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

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

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

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. — read the full passage →

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that 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.” — read the full passage →

Then your handmaid 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.’” — read the full passage →

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

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. — read the full passage →

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness: they have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah. — read the full passage →

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

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

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. — read the full passage →

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit. — read the full passage →

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. — read the full passage →

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation, — read the full passage →

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good. — read the full passage →

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

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

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

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

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.

The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage. — read the full passage →

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

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.

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. — read the full passage →

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

for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,” than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. — read the full passage →

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

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

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

An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” — read the full passage →

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.”

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

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?” — read the full passage →

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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,

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

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

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

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.”

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

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. — read the full passage →

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.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

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

“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. — read the full passage →

But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is no one who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince.”

In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.