'Flatter' in the Bible

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.

I won't discriminate against anyone, and I won't flatter any person,

since I don't know the first thing about how to flatter; and the one who made me would sweep me away as if I were nothing."

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; 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.

These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.