Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Do i seek
The servant
Bible References
Do i now
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge;
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
2 Corinthians 5:9
So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Do i seek
2 Corinthians 12:19
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts.
For if
Matthew 22:16
And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and you care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men.
Romans 15:1
We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
1 Corinthians 10:33
just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
Ephesians 6:6
not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
Colossians 3:22
Slaves, in everything obey those who are your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
The servant
Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God