Synonyms: humiliation, mortification, chagrin, ignominy, loss of face, shamefacedness, embarrassment, indignity, abashment, discomfort, discomfiture, discomposure, guilt, remorse, contrition, compunction, disgrace, dishonour, discredit, degradation, disrepute, ill-repute, infamy, scandal, odium, opprobrium, obloquy, condemnation, contempt, pity, misfortune, crying shame, cause for regret, source of regret, sad thing, unfortunate thing, discredit to, disgrace to, stain on, blemish on, blot on, blot on the escutcheon of, slur on, reproach to, bad reflection on, bring into disrepute, degrade, debase, defame, stigmatize, taint, sully, tarnish, besmirch, stain, blacken, drag through the mud/mire, give a bad name to, put in a bad light, humiliate, mortify, make someone feel ashamed, embarrass, abash, chasten, humble, put someone in their place, take down a peg or two, cut down to size, show up
Antonyms: honor, pride, respect, glory, praise, dignity, honor, esteem, glorification, laud, compliment, regard, credit, elevate, acclaim, pleasure, favor, kudos, recognition, flatter, admiration, greatness, happiness, self-confidence, reverence
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1. Put Up and Shut Up
Proverbs 18:21
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James Merritt
... trifles, and they go down into the inmost body." The ear craves gossip like a hungry stomach craves good food. That's why Solomon goes on to give this warning: "He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who flatters with his lips." (Prov. 20:19) Your kids will have one of two tendencies: either to have gossipy lips or gossipy ears. If they have gossipy lips teach them not to share gossip. If they have gossipy ears teach them not to receive it. b. The Flapping ...
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C. Hassell Bullock
... indicates. God’s word is his envoy sent out to do his bidding, and because God is sovereign, this mission will not fail (Isa. 40:8; 45:23). Teaching the Text Those in David’s world who are loyal and reliable have been replaced by liars and flatterers (12:2). The sense of verse 2 is that the psalmist’s generation is so wicked that not a single pious person can be found.[11] Obviously this is hyperbole, that is, an overstatement of the case, because David himself was considered to be a righteous person ...
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C. Hassell Bullock
... looking honestly at our own lives so that we do not even see our own sin. Pride can lead to disaster when it keeps us from seeing the danger of our faults and weaknesses. Come clean before God. Bible: Even we who believe can have times where we flatter ourselves to the point where we do not see our own sinful nature. We feel smug because we compare ourselves to “the people of the world” rather than examine ourselves in the light of God’s Word. Read Matthew 22:36–40, and ask your listeners to reflect ...
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C. Hassell Bullock
... 11 indicates. God’s word is his envoy sent out to do his bidding, and because God is sovereign, this mission will not fail (Isa. 40:8; 45:23). Teaching the Text Those in David’s world who are loyal and reliable have been replaced by liars and flatterers (12:2). The sense of verse 2 is that the psalmist’s generation is so wicked that not a single pious person can be found.11 Obviously this is hyperbole, that is, an overstatement of the case, because David himself was considered to be a righteous person ...
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James Merritt
... soft music playing in the background. Notice how she uses his eyes and his ears as a pipeline to his heart. Flattery is the bait and her tongue is the hook. Solomon refers to the danger of flattery repeatedly: "To deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words." (Prov. 2:16) "For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil." (Prov. 5:3) "To keep you from the evil woman, from the ...
6. What Must I Do?
Mark 10:17-31
Sermon
King Duncan
... care of. God accepts us as we are. God sees us as perfect, according to scripture. There is nothing we can add to perfection. The deal is sealed. You can't buy God with your puny actions. God loves you just as you are. This young man tried to flatter the wrong person and he asked the wrong question. And yet, says the writer of Mark, "Jesus loved him." Jesus turns to the young man and says to him "You know the commandments: You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall ...
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James Merritt
... ; to the person who "damns another man with faint praise." Solomon said in Pr. 26:28, "A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin." That's why he gave this advice in Pr. 20:19, "Do not associate with one who flatters with his lips." Oh, it's sugarcoated, it is honeybaked, but flattery is lying just the same. You ask what is flattery? Flattery is what you will say to a person's face that you would never say behind his back. It is not sincere praise for another ...
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Gary M. Burge
... (2:6). God continued to test their character and motives. In 2:5 Paul invokes two witnesses, the Thessalonians and God himself, to attest to the apostles’ character (see also 2:10; Deut. 17:6; 2 Cor. 13:1; 1 Tim. 5:19; Heb. 10:28). Aristotle, distinguishing between flatterers, who want something out of you, and true friends, said: “The man who always joins in the pleasures of his companions . . . [and] does so for the sake of getting something by it in the shape of money or money’s worth . . . is a ...
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... , The Second Book of Samuel, p. 131). 14:20 The idea that the king was like an angel of God, not just in his ability to judge the right thing to do but also in his ability to know everything that happens in the land, was introduced to flatter David. However, the concept apparently evolved into the kind of superstitious awe of the king’s powers that we see in 18:13. 14:26 Two hundred shekels is a vast weight, far more than could be obtained from weighing one headful of human hair, however luxuriant. It ...
10. Absalom's Conspiracy
2 Samuel 15:1-12
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... , The Second Book of Samuel, p. 131). 14:20 The idea that the king was like an angel of God, not just in his ability to judge the right thing to do but also in his ability to know everything that happens in the land, was introduced to flatter David. However, the concept apparently evolved into the kind of superstitious awe of the king’s powers that we see in 18:13. 14:26 Two hundred shekels is a vast weight, far more than could be obtained from weighing one headful of human hair, however luxuriant. It ...
11. Flattery of a Tyrant
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Editor James S. Hewett
In ancient Greece, the politically crafty philosopher Aristippus had learned to get along in court by flattering the tyrant Denys. Aristippus looked down his nose at some of his less prosperous fellow philosophers and wise men who would not stoop that low. One day he saw his colleague Diogenes washing some vegetables and he said to him disdainfully: "If you would only learn to flatter King Denys you would not have to be washing lentils." Diogenes looked up slowly and in the same tone replied, "And you, if ...
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Robert F. Crowley
... as you think. It is \nright and the correct thing to be -- to be weak. \nAURANT: Then I am doing the right thing. \nNEBUTH: Yes, yes, you certainly are. You are a most correct and \nnoble person. \nAURANT: Noble? You flatter me. \nNEBUTH: No. There's no time for it. I do not flatter you. I \ntell you what I truly see in you, what you have taught me. \nAURANT: Then tell me this -- why is weakness an important thing \nto teach? \nNEBUTH: Because the kind of weakness ...\nAURANT: And my failure ...\nNEBUTH ...
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R. Blaine Detrick
... , or dishonest. He could have lied. He could have been a hypocrite. He didn’t have to tell those kings all that their dreams meant. Telling the truth endangered his life. Yet he told the truth, the whole truth, the ugly truth, the unpopular truth. He might have flattered the kings with half-truths or "little white lies." Or he might have simply said, "Like the rest of your wise men, I don’t know." But from his God, he received the guidance and ability to tell those kings what they needed to know. And he ...
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Warren Thomas Smith
... celebrating his own worship in the midst of his host of priests and faithful." Never in modern history was an individual permitted to gormandize to the extent of the Grand Monarch. Hardly a mortal before or since has known such pampered elegance, such crapulence. He was flattered, fawned upon, and idolized by a throng of sycophants. When he died, Louis XIV’s body was hissed and booed as it was carried through the streets. It was a welcome relief that the vain old man was dead. Louis XIV built a house and ...
15. Hang in There!
Matthew 15:21-28
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David E. Leininger
... us wonder what we have done. After all, at first blush, this lesson makes the Lord sound like something of a jerk. My first reaction is to want to "rescue" Jesus, find some way of explaining away this conversation that will put him in a bit more flattering light. The commentators are all over the lot on this one. Some have said that Jesus was just having a bad day - he and the twelve had gone north, out of Galilee (the only time the Gospels have Jesus leaving his native land). He had been having trouble ...
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James Merritt
... with her words." (Proverbs 2:16, NASB) In Chapter 6, verse 24, he speaks of - "The smooth tongue of the adulteress." (Proverbs 6:24, NASB) In Chapter 7, verse 5, he warns about the "Adulteress… who flatters with her words." (Proverbs 7:5, NASB) Speaking of a young man seduced "So she seduced him with her pretty speech. With her flattery she enticed him." (Proverbs 7:21, NLT) You would be amazed how often the dark side of sexual sin arrives with just seemingly casual conversation that ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... , do not consider the purpose for which Christ was sent into the world, and do not acknowledge the depth of evils in which the human race is plunged ... The consequence is, that they are too stupid to feel the miseries of men, or to think of a remedy. While they flatter themselves, they cannot endure to be placed in their own rank, and that injustice is done them, when they are classed with transgressors.4 These are pretty harsh words. Calvin says that you and I are hypocritical and stupid, inclined to ...
18. Living to Please God
1 Thessalonians 2:1-16
Sermon
King Duncan
... and dish‑watery utterances of the man who has been pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States.” (1) Sooner or later all of us have to deal with criticism. Let me ask you a second question: Has anyone ever tried to flatter you? That is, have they ever tried to praise you extravagantly? Let me guess we are not nearly as sensitive to flattery as we are to criticism, are we? I chuckled when I read a story about the late, great motivational speaker Cavett Robert. Robert was ...
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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.
... .” By sad experience, the pilgrims learn the foolishness of neglecting this advice. They come to a place where two roads run parallel, both seeming straight. As they think what to do, a man “very black of flesh but covered with a very light robe” (a flatterer metaphorically) asks them why they are there. They tell him they are on the way to the Celestial City but do not know which way to take. “Follow me,” he says, and little by little he leads them away from the city, until they fall “within ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... and refined. (This may reflect a priestly background to the oracle.) In the context of the psalm, we can see the implicit contrast between Yahweh’s speech, which is pure, and the speech of the wicked, which is “vain” or “empty” (Hb. šāwʾ), deceitfully flattering (v. 2), and arrogant (vv. 3–4). Verse 7 does not merely repeat Yahweh’s promise; it moves the congregation to address him directly with an act of praise and to express the assurance that he has heard their petitions. Verse 8 sounds ...
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Harry N. Huxhold
... can live above the world and live in him by faith, which is to live eternally, beginning right now. The Glory Of It When Jesus spoke of these prospects, however, things did not look all that good. Here come these strangers, who certainly must have appeared to flatter Jesus by taking the time to look him up and express their interest. Then Jesus comes back with this very sober appraisal of his prospects. He is going to die, and asks his followers to die with him. However, Jesus called it his "hour of glory ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... like signing up for the military or a membership at the local health club. No, Jesus takes the initiative. He's the one who does the recruiting. Perhaps that is why Jesus is so put off by this man's attempt to butter him with his flattering "Good Teacher." Flattery will get you nowhere with Jesus. Likewise, the man's "What must I do?" question makes the wrong assumption. With such a question the man mistakenly assumes that he is capable of doing whatever it takes to impress Jesus and become one of ...
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Richard Hasler
... players ever to wear a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform, showed great promise even in his rookie year. Once when he was playing in New York, a reporter interviewed him and began comparing him with Willie Mays, a recognized superstar. Any rookie would have been flattered with such a comparison and undoubtedly this young Pirate outfielder was, too. But when the reporter finished speaking the rookie said to him: "Nonetheless, I play like Roberto Clemente." God has given each one of us a special gift that sets us ...
25. Two Sons: A Parable
Matthew 21:28-32, Matthew 21:23-27
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William E. Keeney
... is not a typical expression for Matthew. He usually referred to the kingdom of heaven. To refer to the kingdom of God would be more typical of the term used by Luke. 6. "Ahead of You." (v. 31) "You" refers to the opponents of Jesus who used flattering address yet really were seeking to trap him. They wanted to find a reason to accuse him of some religious error. Their questions were not sincere in seeking to understand him and respond to his message. 7. "The Tax Collectors and the Prostitutes." (vv. 31 and ...
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