12 Bible Verses about Flatter

Psalm 78:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

Proverbs 29:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 28:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

Proverbs 26:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Psalm 36:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

Acts 12:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

Luke 6:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Psalm 12:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

Job 32:21-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person. For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.

Mark 7:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Matthew 20:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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