12 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men
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For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.
as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit but that of many, that they may be saved.
AND at that time Herod the king put forth his hands to injure some of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also,??nd it was during the days of unleavened bread,??4 and having seized he put him in prison, committing him to four companies of four soldiers each to guard him, wishing after the passover to bring him before the people.
But after two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and wishing to gratify the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.
But Festus wishing to gratify the Jews, answered Paul and said, Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried by me for these things?
not with eye service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,
but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.
And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.
No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier.
Let servants be subject to their masters, please them in all things, not contradicting,
Bible Theasaurus
- Pleasing (207 instances)