8 Bible Verses about Not Pleasing People

And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;

And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, 'The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

And Moses heareth the people weeping by its families, each at the opening of his tent, and the anger of Jehovah burneth exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses it is evil.

And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, 'Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prayeth unto Jehovah.

And Hiram cometh out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon hath given to him, and they have not been right in his eyes,