16 Bible Verses about Men Pleasers
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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.
And Peter having answered, and the sent, said, We must obey God rather than men.
Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ; Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul: With affection serving the Lord, and not men.read more.
Knowing that whatever good each might do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or free. And, lords, do ye the same things to them, letting go threatening: knowing that also your own Lord is in the heavens; and distinction of persons is not with him.
And at that time Herod the king laid hands upon to injure certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added also to take Peter. (They were the days of unleavened bread.)
And two years completed, Felix took Porcius Festus, a successor: and wishing to render a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.
And Festus, wishing to render a favor to the Jews, having answered Paul, said, Wilt thou, having gone up to Jerusalem, there be judged by me of these things?
Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:
Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God:
Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.
But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:
Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ.
And he said to them, Ye are they justifying yourselves before men; and God knows your hearts: for the high with men is abomination before God.
Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority;
Providing good things beforehand, not only before the Lord, but also before men.