Bible Dictionary: Flattery: Danger of

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 7:21-23
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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Library

To the Disciples - Two Events and their Moral.
... It is against this that He warned His disciples - and in this, rather than conscious
deception, pretence, or flattery, lies the danger of the Church. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xiii to the disciples.htm

Of Flattery.
... to our Neighbor which I shall mention, is Flattery. This is indeed the fatalest
wound of the Tongue, carries least Smart, but infinitely more of Danger, and is ...
/.../allestree/the government of the tongue/section viii of flattery.htm

How Titus Marched to Jerusalem, and How He was in Danger as He was ...
... an action, and being under great concern for him, they loudly proclaimed the danger
he was ... if I may be allowed neither to add any thing out of flattery, nor to ...
/.../chapter 2 how titus marched.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... Scriptures Showing The Sin And Danger Of Joining With Wicked And Ungodly Men. ... To
keep thee from the strange woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

Whether Restitution is Binding on those who have not Taken?
... Now sometimes a man would expose himself to the danger of death, were he to betray
a thief, or ... "By command, by counsel, by consent, by flattery, by receiving ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether restitution is binding on.htm

Temporary Hardening.
... in the front or from behind, to ruin him with threats or with flattery, to frighten ...
again and again in making a man either trifle with the deadly danger of his ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxxiv temporary hardening.htm

His Charge of Cowardice is Baseless: for Basil Displayed the ...
... None could describe his contempt of danger, so as to bring before the reader's eyes ...
after another is put on, turned with all its threats into flattery; and the ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 12 his charge of.htm

Matt. xxii. 15
... for they feared the multitude), they took another way with the intention of bringing
Him into danger, and making ... And see their flattery, and their hidden craft ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxx matt xxii 15.htm

Letter xiv. --On Reserve with a Director.
... What is to be done to guarantee ourselves against this fresh danger? ... Examine yourself
without any flattery as to this two-fold matter, and enlighten yourself ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/letter xiv on reserve with a.htm

How virtuous and Useful was that which Elisha Did. ...
... or to make the prophetic office yield to the king, or to indulge in flattery. ... fear
of false witness, seeing herself hard pressed on one side by danger, on the ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xiv how virtuous and.htm

Subtopics

Flattery by Darius's Courtiers

Flattery by False Prophets

Flattery by Gideon

Flattery by Herod Agrippa Ii

Flattery by Israel and Judah

Flattery by Jacob

Flattery by Mephibosheth