12 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men
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For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.
as I also please all in all things, seeking not my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.
But at this time king Herod reached forth his hands to persecute some of those from the church. And he slew James the brother of John with a sword. And seeing that it is pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also: and those were the days of the unleavened bread:
But two years having passed away Felix received Porcius Festus as his successor: and Felix, wishing to confer on the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.
And Festus, wishing to confer a gratification on the Jews, responding to Paul, said, Are you willing, having gone up to Jerusalem, there to be judged by me concerning these things?
not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the soul;
but the one having married cares for the things of the world, in order that he may please his wife.
A wife and a virgin truly also differ: the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but she having married cares for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.
No one operating as a soldier is entangled with the affairs of life; in order that he may please his commander.
That servants submit to their own masters, that they be obedient in all things; not speaking back;
Bible Theasaurus
- Pleasing (207 instances)