8 Bible Verses about Not Pleasing People

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.

If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased.

But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD.

But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.