Galatians 1:10
For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.
Acts 4:19-20
But Peter and John replied, "Judge whether it is right in God's sight to listen to you instead of listening to God.
Acts 5:29
Peter and the other Apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than man.
2 Corinthians 5:9-11
And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.
James 4:4
You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
Ephesians 6:6
Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's will from the heart.
1 John 3:9
No one who is a child of God is habitually guilty of sin. A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he cannot habitually sin--because he is a child of God.
Matthew 22:16
So they sent to Him their disciples together with the Herodians; who said, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you faithfully teach God's truth; and that no fear of man misleads you, for you are not biased by men's wealth or rank.
Romans 2:29
But the true Jew is one inwardly, and true circumcision is heart-circumcision--not literal, but spiritual; and such people receive praise not from men, but from God.
Colossians 3:22
Slaves, be obedient in everything to your earthly masters; not in acts of eye service, as aiming only to please men, but with simplicity of purpose, because you fear the Lord.
Romans 1:1
Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News,
1 Corinthians 10:33
That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.
Matthew 28:14
"And if this," they added, "is reported to the Governor, we will satisfy him and screen you from punishment."
Acts 12:20
Now the people of Tyre and Sidon had incurred Herod's violent displeasure. So they sent a large deputation to wait on him; and having secured the good will of Blastus, his treasurer, they begged the king to be friendly with them again, because their country was dependent on his for its food supply.
Romans 2:8
while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, affliction and awful distress,
Romans 15:1-2
As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.
2 Corinthians 12:19
You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in God's presence and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.