Bible Verses About Flattery
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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.
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Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
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.
22And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
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.
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.
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.
5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: