18 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

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.

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

for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

And at that time Herod the king threw on his hands to oppress some of those of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he went further to seize Peter also. (And they were days of Unleavened Bread.)

But after two years Felix welcomed a successor, Porcius Festus. And wishing to show a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

But Festus, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things?

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

Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good, to building up.

Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight to your soul.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how to please his wife.

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

He has bent His bow like an enemy; He stood with His right hand like an adversary, and killed all who were desirable to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He poured out His fury like fire.

And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? Bring it now to your governor. Will he accept you, or lift up your face, says Jehovah of Hosts?

They hear that I sigh; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard my evil; they are glad that You have done it. You will bring the day that You have called, and they shall be like me.

No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

Slaves are to be obedient to their masters, to please them well in all things, not talking against,

As to the saints in the earth, they are the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

Many seek the ruler's favor; but each man's judgment comes from Jehovah.