Flattery: General Scriptures Concerning

Scripture references

• Job 17:5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will
• Job 32:21, 22 I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man. / For I do
• Psa 5:8, 9 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make
• Psa 12:2, 3 They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double
• Psa 36:2 For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
• Psa 49:13, 18 This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who
• Psa 78:36 But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their
• Pro 5:3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is
• Pro 6:24 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
• Pro 7:5, 21 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with
• Pro 14:20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love
• Pro 19:4, 6 Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
• Pro 20:19 He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles
• Pro 22:16 Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will
• Pro 24:24 Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and
• Pro 25:26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way
• Pro 26:28 A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes
• Pro 27:21 A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the
• Pro 28:23 He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters
• Pro 29:5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
• Dan 11:21, 34 In his place a despicable person will arise; royal honors will not be
• Luk 6:26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the
• Gal 1:10 Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to
• 1Th 2:4–6 Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the
• Jde 1:16 These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts;