Nave’s Topical Bible
Flattery
40 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Job 17:5; Job 32:21-22; Psalms 5:8-9; Psalms 12:2-3; Psalms 36:2; Psalms 49:13,18; Psalms 78:36; Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 7:5,21; Proverbs 14:20; Proverbs 19:4,6; Proverbs 20:19; Proverbs 22:16; Proverbs 24:24; Proverbs 25:26; Proverbs 26:28; Proverbs 27:21; Proverbs 28:23; Proverbs 29:5; Daniel 11:21,34; Luke 6:26; Galatians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:4-6; Jude 1:16
- INSTANCE OF
- By Jacob
- By Gideon
- By Mephibosheth
- By the woman of Tekoah
- By Absalom
- By Israel and Judah
- By Adonijah
- By Ahab
- By false prophets
- By Darius's courtiers
- By the Herodians
- By Tyrians
- Tertullus flatters Felix
- Paul correctly informs Felix
- By Herod Agrippa II
Bible verses about “Flattery”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Job 17:5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
- Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
- Job 32:22For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
- Psalms 5:8Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
- Psalms 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- Psalms 12:3The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
- Psalms 36:2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
- Psalms 49:13This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
- Psalms 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
- Psalms 78:36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- Proverbs 7:21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
- Proverbs 14:20The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
- Proverbs 19:4Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
- Proverbs 19:6Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
- Proverbs 20:19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
- Proverbs 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
- Proverbs 24:24He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
- Proverbs 25:26A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
- Proverbs 26:28A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
- Proverbs 27:21As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
- Proverbs 28:23He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
- Proverbs 29:5A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
- Daniel 11:21And 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.
- Daniel 11:34Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
- Luke 6:26Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
- Galatians 1:10For 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4But 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
- 1 Thessalonians 2:6Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
- Jude 1:16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
- Genesis 33:10And 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.
- Judges 8:1And 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.
- Judges 8:2And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi–ezer?
- Judges 8:3God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
- 2 Samuel 9:8And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
- 2 Samuel 14:17Then 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.