24 Bible Verses about Praising Specific People

My dove, my perfect one, is the only one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the favorite one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

And the king said, What honor and dignity has been bestowed upon Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.

So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?

And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,

At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, says the LORD.

I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes torn, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and paid him honor.

Was he not most honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: however he attained not unto the first three.

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name among three mighty men.

Why trample you on my sacrifice and on my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

Now I praise you, brethren, because you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

And when I come, whomsoever you shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

And let these also first be tested; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and paid homage to Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor paid him homage.

And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor paid him homage, then was Haman full of wrath.