Flattery

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Job 17:5 OT

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

• Job 32:21 OT

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

• Job 32:22 OT

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

• Psalms 5:8 OT

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

• Psalms 5:9 OT

  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 OT

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

• Psalms 12:3 OT

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

• Psalms 36:2 OT

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

• Psalms 49:13 OT

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

• Psalms 49:18 OT

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

• Psalms 78:36 OT

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

• Proverbs 5:3 OT

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

• Proverbs 6:24 OT

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

• Proverbs 7:5 OT

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

• Proverbs 7:21 OT

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

• Proverbs 14:20 OT

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

• Proverbs 19:4 OT

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

• Proverbs 19:6 OT

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

• Proverbs 20:19 OT

  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 OT

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

• Proverbs 24:24 OT

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

• Proverbs 25:26 OT

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

• Proverbs 26:28 OT

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

• Proverbs 27:21 OT

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