Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

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? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

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 trying to win the favor and approval of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please someone? If I were still trying to be popular with men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

do I
πείθω 
Peitho 
Usage: 52

now
ἄρτι 
Arti 
Usage: 21

πείθω 
Peitho 
Usage: 52

men
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
man, not tr,
man, not tr,
Usage: 316
Usage: 316
Usage: 316

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

do I seek
ζητέω 
Zeteo 
Usage: 79

to please
ἀρέσκω 
Aresko 
Usage: 17

for
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

I
ἀρέσκω 
Aresko 
Usage: 17

yet
ἔτι 
Eti 
Usage: 75

ἀρέσκω 
Aresko 
Usage: 17

I should
ἤμην 
Emen 
was, I imprisoned 9, I was , should be
Usage: 9

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

be
ἤμην 
Emen 
was, I imprisoned 9, I was , should be
Usage: 9

the servant
δοῦλος 
Doulos 
Usage: 65

References

Images Galatians 1:10

Prayers for Galatians 1:10

Context Readings

A Different Gospel

9 As we have said before, so I say now again, if any preach to you another gospel than that ye received, let him be accursed. 10 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. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:4

But as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who trieth our hearts.

Acts 4:19-20

But Peter and John answering, said to them, Whether it be righteous in the sight of God, to obey you rather than God, judge ye.

Acts 5:29

Then Peter and the other apostles answering said, We ought to obey God rather than man.

2 Corinthians 5:9-11

Therefore we are ambitious, whether present, or absent, to be well-pleasing to him.

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not, that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whosoever therefore desireth to be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God.

Ephesians 6:6

Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

1 John 3:9

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed abideth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Matthew 22:16

And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth; neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

Romans 2:29

But he is a Jew, who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Colossians 3:22

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Romans 1:1

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God,

1 Corinthians 10:33

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many that they may be saved.

Matthew 28:14

And if this come to the governour's ears, we will persuade him and secure you.

Acts 12:20

And he was highly incensed against them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and having gained Blastus, the king's chamberlain, sued for peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.

Romans 2:8

But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be indignation and wrath,

Romans 15:1-2

Therefore we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

2 Corinthians 12:19

Think ye that we again excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all things, beloved, for your edification.

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