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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.

The servant

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Do i now

But Peter and John replied, "Decide for yourselves whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God.
Peter and the apostles answered, "One must obey God rather than men.
Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it;
no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

Do i seek

You think all this time I am defending myself to you? No, I am speaking in Christ before the presence of God, and speaking every word, beloved, in order to build you up.
no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

For if

They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.
We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.
Such is my own rule, to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage but at the advantage of the greater number ??at their salvation.
instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,
Servants, obey your masters here below at every point; do not work simply when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, but serve them with a single heart out of reverence for your Lord and Master.
(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

The servant

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God
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