24 Bible Verses about Praising Specific People

My dove, my undefiled is the one. She is the only one of her mother; she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her. The queens and the concubines praised her.

The king said: What honor and reward have been given to Mordecai for this? The servants waiting on the king said: Nothing has been done for him.

So Haman came in. And the king said to him: What is to be done to the man whom the king has delight in honoring? Then the thought came into Haman's mind, whom, more than myself, would the king have pleasure in honoring?

Haman answered: For the man whom the king has delight in honoring,

At that time I will bring you in! At that time I will gather you together. I will give you a name (honor) and praise among all the peoples of the earth! This will happen when I gather back your captive ones before your very eyes, declares Jehovah.

I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended about you: for in nothing am I inferior to the most prominent apostles, though I am nothing.

Pharaoh's officials saw her. They praised her to Pharaoh. She was taken into his palace.

Three days later a soldier came from Saul's army. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head. He knelt down in front of David.

In fact he was just as famous as the rest of the Thirty Warriors. He was the commander of the Thirty Warriors. Yet he still did not become one of the Three Warriors.

He was honored over the rest of the Thirty Warriors. But he was not equal to the first three. David made him in charge over the fighting men who kept him safe.

Benaiah never became one of the Three Warriors. He was just as famous as they were and certainly just as famous as the rest of the Thirty Warriors. David made him the leader of his bodyguard.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and my offering, which I have commanded in my house? Do you honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'

The master of the dishonest manager praised him for doing a shrewd thing. People of this world are more astute at handling their affairs than people who belong to the light.

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a minister of the congregation at Cenchrea.

He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all.

All witnessed this and wondered at the kind words that he spoke. They said: Is this not Joseph's son?

Now I praise you, brothers, because you remember me in all things, and carefully follow the teachings (precepts) (doctrine) just as I delivered them to you.

When I come, whomever you approve by your letters, I will send to bring your gift to Jerusalem.

Let these be tested first. Then let them serve as servants, if they are blameless.

They spoke a good deal about the good he had done in my presence, and reported what I said to him. Tobiah sent letters with the purpose of causing me fear.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you or from you?

Now in this that I declare to you that I do not praise you. For you come together not for the better but for the worse.

All the king's servants who were in the king's house went down to the earth before Haman and gave him honor just as the king ordered. But Mordecai did not go down before him or give him honor.

Haman saw that Mordecai did not go before him and give him honor. Haman was very angry.