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.

The servant

Bible References

Do i now

Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered them, and said, Whether it be right in the sight of God to obey you rather than God, judge ye:
Acts 5:29
But Peter, and the other apostles, answered, and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore we are also ambitious, whether dwelling in the body, or out of it, to be well-pleasing to Him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

Do i seek

2 Corinthians 12:19
Do ye then think that we are making apologies to you? No, we speak before God in Christ: and all, my beloved, for your edification.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

For if

Matthew 22:16
And they send to Him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art a man of truth, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest for any man; for thou regardest not the person of men: Tell us therefore what thou thinkest,
Romans 15:1
Now we that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves:
1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I also endeavour to please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
Ephesians 6:6
not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Colossians 3:22
Servants, be obedient in all things to your lawful masters, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in uprightness of heart, fearing God; and whatever service ye do,
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

The servant

Romans 1:1
Paul a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,