18 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

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.

As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved.

For they loved the honour of men more than the honour of God.

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:

For let each of us please the neighbor for good to the building.

Correct thy son and he shall cause thee to rest, and he shall give delight to thy soul.

And he married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

He bent his bow as an enemy: he set his right hand as an adversary, and be will slay all the delights of the eye in the tent of the daughter of Zion: he poured his wrath as fire.

And if ye shall bring near the blind for a sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye shall bring near the lame and the sick, is it not evil? bring A near now to thy governor; will he delight in thee, or lift up thy face? said Jehovah of armies.

Hear, ye, for I groan: none comforting for me: all mine enemies heard my evils: they rejoiced that thou didst: thou broughtest the day thou didst call, and they shall be like me.

None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him.

Servants to be subordinate to their own masters, to be pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

To the holy ones that are upon the earth, they and the mighty ones, all my delight is in them.

Many are seeking the face of the ruler, and from Jehovah a man's judgment