Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
For am I now
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God?
International Standard Version
Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.
A Conservative Version
For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.
American Standard Version
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
Amplified
Am I now
An Understandable Version
For am I seeking [to gain] the favor of men or of God? Or, am I striving to please people [by what I do]? If I were still [trying] to please people, I would not be a [true] servant of Christ.
Anderson New Testament
For, do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? or do I strive to please men? If, indeed, I would still please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Bible in Basic English
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Common New Testament
Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.
Darby Translation
For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.
Godbey New Testament
For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.
Goodspeed New Testament
Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.
John Wesley New Testament
For do I now satisfy men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Julia Smith Translation
For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.
King James 2000
For do I now seek the favor of men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.
Modern King James verseion
For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Preach I man's doctrine or God's? Other go I about to please men? If I studied to please men, I were not the servant of Christ.
Moffatt New Testament
Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.
Montgomery New Testament
Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.
NET Bible
Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!
New Heart English Bible
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Noyes New Testament
For do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Or am I endeavoring to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Sawyer New Testament
For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.
The Emphasized Bible
For am I, even now, persuading, men, or God? Or am I seeking to please, men? If I had been still pleasing, men, Christ's servant, had I not been!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For do I now use persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
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.
Williams New Testament
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.
World English Bible
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
Worrell New Testament
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.
Worsley New Testament
For do I now persuade you to obey men or God? Or do I seek to please men? if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Youngs Literal Translation
for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.
Themes
Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
Evangelism » Those that preach other gospels
Interlinear
Peitho
Anthropos
ἄνθρωπος
Anthropos
ἄνθρωπος
Anthropos
Usage: 316
Usage: 316
References
Easton
Word Count of 37 Translations in Galatians 1:10
Prayers for Galatians 1:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Different Gospel
9
As we said before, so do I say now again, If anyone preaches any other gospel unto you than what ye have received, let him be anathema.
10 For am I now
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but because we have been approved of God that he might entrust us with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
Acts 4:19-20
Then Peter and John answered and said unto them, Judge whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God.
Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We must persuade God rather than men.
2 Corinthians 5:9-11
Therefore we also procure, whether present or absent, that we may please him.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.
Ephesians 6:6
not to be seen as only pleasing men, but as the slaves of the Christ, doing the will of God from within,
1 John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Matthew 22:16
And they sent out unto him their disciples with those of Herod, saying, Master, we know that thou art a lover of truth and teachest the way of God with truth and that thou takest care for no man, for thou art no respecter of persons of men.
Romans 2:29
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Colossians 3:22
Slaves, in all things hearken unto your masters according to the flesh, not serving to be seen as those who only please men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;
Romans 1:1
Paul, slave of Jesus, the Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God
1 Corinthians 10:33
even as I please everyone in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
1 Samuel 21:7
Now a certain man of the slaves of Saul was there that day, fulfilling a vow before the LORD, and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the principal of the pastors of Saul.
Matthew 28:14
And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and make you secure.
Acts 12:20
And Herod was highly displeased with those of Tyre and Sidon, but they came with one accord to him, and, having bribed Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace because their lands were supplied through those of the king's.
Romans 2:8
but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.
Romans 15:1-2
We then that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not please ourselves.
2 Corinthians 12:19
Again, do ye think that we excuse ourselves unto you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.