lSee Acts 20:33
Job 32:21-22
21I will not ashow partiality to any manor use flattery toward any person.
22For I do not know how to flatter,
else my Maker would soon take me away.
Psalms 12:2-3
2Everyone butters lies to his neighbor;with cflattering lips and da double heart they speak.
3 May the Lord cut off all eflattering lips,
the tongue that makes fgreat boasts,
Proverbs 20:19
19Whoever ggoes about slandering reveals secrets;therefore do not associate with ha simple babbler. ▼
▼Hebrew with one who is simple in his lips
Proverbs 29:5
5 jA man who flatters his neighborspreads ka net for his feet.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
5 lFor we never came with words of flattery, ▼▼Or with a flattering speech
as you know, nor with a pretext for greed— nGod is witness.
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