Bible Verses About Flattery
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for flattery, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,201 votes, led by Proverbs 29:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Flattery
Proverbs 29:5156 votes
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Proverbs 26:24-28129 votes
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
Proverbs 28:23102 votes
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Job 32:21-2286 votes
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
Romans 16:1885 votes
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.
Psalms 5:972 votes
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
1 Thessalonians 2:1-2052 votes
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
Psalms 12:350 votes
The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Jude 1:1648 votes
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
Proverbs 27:644 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 26:2837 votes
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Psalms 12:229 votes
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Psalms 36:225 votes
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
Proverbs 6:2425 votes
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Galatians 1:1025 votes
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.
Job 17:524 votes
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Psalms 12:2-423 votes
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Psalms 78:3621 votes
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
1 Thessalonians 2:517 votes
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
Luke 6:2615 votes
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Ezekiel 33:31-3214 votes
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Psalms 55:2113 votes
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
Daniel 11:21-2212 votes
And 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.
Acts 12:2212 votes
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
1 John 4:112 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
What does the Bible say about flattery?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 29:5 on the subject of flattery. Across 1,201 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 26:24-28, Proverbs 28:23, Job 32:21-22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.