24 Bible Verses about Praising Specific People
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But one is my dove, my darling. She is the only beloved of her mother, and dear unto her that bare her. When the daughters saw her, they said, she was blessed: Yea the Queens and concubines praised her.
And the king said, "What worship and good have we done to Mordecai therefore?" Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, "There is nothing done for him."
And when Haman came in, the king said unto him, "What shall be done unto the man, whom the king would fain bring unto worship?" But Haman thought in his heart, "Whom desireth the king to bring unto worship, more than me?"
And Haman said unto the king, "Let the man unto whom the king would be glad to do worship, be brought hither,
At the same time will I bring you in, and at the same time will I gather you. I will get you a name and a good report among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, sayeth the LORD.
I am made a fool in boasting myself. Ye have compelled me: I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing was I inferior unto the chief apostles, though I be nothing:
And Pharaoh's lords saw her also, and praised her unto Pharaoh, so that she was taken into Pharaoh's house;
Behold, there came a man the third day out of the host from Saul with his clothes rent and earth upon his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the earth and did obeisance.
For he was nobler man than the three and was their captain. Howbeit he attained not unto those three in acts.
Such things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and was the noblest of thirty: But not like to any of the three in facts of war.
Wherefore kick ye against my sacrifice and against mine offering which I command in the tabernacle, and honourest thy children above me, and make yourselves fat of the first fruits 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 kind, wiser than the children of light.
I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a minister of the congregation of Cenchreae,
And all they bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words, which proceeded out of his mouth, and said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"
I commend you brethren that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances even as I delivered them to you.
When I am come, whosoever ye shall allow by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
And let them first be proved, and then let them minister, if they be found faultless.
And they spake good of him before me, and told him my words; and Tobiah sent letters, to put me in fear.
We begin to praise ourselves again. Need we, as some others, of epistles of recommendation unto you? Or letters of recommendation from you?
This I warn you of, and commend not that ye come together: not after a better manner but after a worse.
And all the king's servants that were in the gate, bowed their knees, and did reverenced unto Haman: for the king had so commanded. But Mordecai bowed not the knee, and worshiped him not.
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not the knee unto him, nor worshipped him, he was full of indignation