What Does the Bible Say About Praising Others?

Proverbs 3:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Proverbs 31:28 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, ...

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

James 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Titus 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Song of Solomon 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

James 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Romans 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ...

James 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Mark 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Titus 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

34 Bible Verses about Praising Others

Proverbs 3:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:28 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Titus 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Praising Others

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Proverbs 3:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:28 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Titus 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote