Bible Verses About Flattery

"These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage."

Jude 1:16 ESV

"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."

Job 32:21-22 ESV

"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

Hebrews 4:12 ESV

"For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. ..."

1 Thessalonians 2:1-20 ESV

"To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman."

Proverbs 6:24 KJV

"He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."

Job 17:5 KJV

"You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness."

1 Thessalonians 2:5 NIV

"For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people."

Romans 16:18 NIV

"With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him."

Daniel 11:32 NIV   

"for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away."

Job 32:22 NIV