⁵He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

²¹Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

²²For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

⁸Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

⁹For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

²They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

³The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

²For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

¹³This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

¹⁸Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

³⁶Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

³For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

²⁴To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

²¹With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

²⁰The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

⁴Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

⁶Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

¹⁹He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

¹⁶He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

²⁴He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

²⁶A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

²⁸A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

²¹As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

²³He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

⁵A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

²¹And 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.

³⁴Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

²⁶Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

¹⁰For 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.