12 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

For do I now satisfy men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many that they may be saved.

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

About that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to afflict a certain of the church. And he slew James, the brother of John, with the sword. And perceiving it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take Peter also.

But after two years, Felix was succeeded by Portius Festus: and Felix desiring to gratify the Jews, left Paul bound.

But Festus, willing to gratify the Jews, answered Paul and said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged before me concerning these things?

Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Let every one of us please his neighbour, for his good, to edification.

But the married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit: but the married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

No man that warreth intangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath inlisted him.

Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, to please them in all things,