Galatians 1:10
Am I now trying to win men's favor, or God's? Or, am I trying to be pleasing to men? If I were still trying to be pleasing to men, I would not be a slave of Christ at all.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
for since we have been so approved by God as to be entrusted with the good news, we are now telling it, not to please men but God, who proves and finds approved our hearts.
Acts 4:19-20
But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of Him,
Acts 5:29
Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
2 Corinthians 5:9-11
So whether I am at home or away from home, it is my constant ambition to please Him.
James 4:4
You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.
Ephesians 6:6
not serving them as though they were watching you, but as true slaves of Christ, trying to carry out the will of God.
1 John 3:9
No one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, because the God-given life-principle continues to live in him, and so he cannot practice sinning, because he is born of God.
Matthew 22:16
So they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, to say to Him, "Teacher, we know that you are in the habit of telling the truth and of teaching the way of God in honesty, and you do not care what anyone says, for you are not partial.
Romans 2:29
The real Jew is the man who is a Jew on the inside, and real circumcision is heart-circumcision, a spiritual, not a literal, affair. This man's praise originates, not with men, but with God.
Colossians 3:22
Slaves, practice obedience to your earthly masters in everything, not as though they were watching you and as though you were merely pleasing men, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.
Romans 1:1
Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to preach God's good news,
1 Corinthians 10:33
just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved.
Matthew 28:14
And if news of it gets to the governor's ears, we will make it all right with him, and keep you out of trouble."
Acts 12:20
Now Herod cherished a bitter grudge against the people of Tyre and Sidon. So in a united body they came to meet him, and after winning the favor of Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended for its food supply upon the king's country.
Romans 2:8
but wrath and fury, crushing suffering and awful anguish, to the self-willed who are always resisting the right and yielding to the wrong,
Romans 15:1-2
It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.
2 Corinthians 12:19
Are you thinking all this time that I am defending myself to you? It is in the very presence of God and as one who is in union with Christ that I am speaking. And it is all for building you up, beloved, for I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, when I come I shall find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me.