Job 32:21-22

21I will not ashow partiality to any man
or 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 29:5

5 gA man who flatters his neighbor
spreads ha net for his feet.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

5 iFor we never came with words of flattery,
Or  with a flattering speech
as you know, nor with a pretext for greedkGod is witness.
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