Bible Verses About Flattery: Ministers should not use

For 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.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

But 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.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.