Flattery

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:5 NT

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

• 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 36:2 OT

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

• Psalms 78:36 OT

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

• Daniel 11:34 OT

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

• Ezekiel 12:24 OT

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

• Romans 16:18 NT

  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.

• Proverbs 4:5 OT

  Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

• Daniel 11:21 OT

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

• Daniel 11:22 OT

  The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince of the covenant.

• Proverbs 28:23 OT

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

• 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 7:21-23 OT

  With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird…

• Proverbs 20:5 OT

  Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

• Job 17:5 OT

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

• Psalms 12:3 OT

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

• 2 Samuel 14:17 OT

  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 14:20 OT

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

• 2 Samuel 15:2-6 OT

  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…

• 1 Kings 22:13 OT

  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.”

• Daniel 6:7 OT

  All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man…

• Matthew 12:14 NT

  But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

• Acts 12:22 NT

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