And when the seventh day was come, they said unto Samson's wife, "Flatter with thine husband, that he may declare us thy riddle, or else we will burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to make us beggars? Or not?"

- unto whom came the lords of the Philistines, and said unto her, "Flatter with him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may have power over him, that we may bind him, to bring him under, and we will give every man eleven hundred silverlings."

Thou mightest know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to flatter with thee, and to know thy conversation and behaviour, and to know all that thou doest."

Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews.

“Let me now be partial to no one,
Nor flatter any man.

for I do not know [how] {to flatter}, [else] my Maker would {soon} put an end to me.

Will he make many fair words with thee, thinkest thou, or flatter thee?

For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.

They say, "We speak persuasively; we know how to flatter and boast. Who is our master?"

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.

And such as break the covenant shall he flatter with fair words. But the people that will know their God, shall have the overhand and prosper.

whilst they flatter themselves with peace and safety, destruction shall fall upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they shall not escape.

These persons are grumblers, ever complaining about their lot. They live to satisfy their evil passions, their lips boast arrogant things, and they flatter others for personal gain.