He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

Let me not, I pray, show partiality to anyone; Nor let me flatter any man.

For I do not know how to flatter, Else my Maker would soon take me away.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue.

They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things,

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, When he finds out his iniquity and when he hates.

Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue;

To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,

To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words.

With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, With her flattering lips she seduced him.

He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; Therefore do not associate with one who flatters with his lips.

A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it, And a flattering mouth works ruin.

He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward Than he who flatters with the tongue.

A man who flatters his neighbor Spreads a net for his feet.

For no more shall there be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.

Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.

For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak for covetousness—God is witness.

Apostates Predicted

These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.