24 Bible Verses about Praising Specific People
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My dove, my undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother; She is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; Yea , the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?
At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before your eyes, saith Jehovah.
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
it came to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.
I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae:
And all bare him witness, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth: and they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem:
And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.
Also they spake of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed down, and did reverence to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence.
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.