12 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

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.

as I also strive to please all in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many; that they may be saved.

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

Now about that time, Herod the king laid his hands upon certain of the church, to oppress them. And he slew James, the brother of John, with the sword. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also; (then were the days of unleavened bread;)

But after two years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and Felix, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, left Paul bound.

But Festus, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried on these charges before me?

not with eyeservice as menpleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Let each one of us please his neighbor, to promote what is good, for edification.

but he that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please his wife.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin; the unmarried woman careth about the things of the Lord, to be holy, both in body and in spirit; but she that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

Exhort bondservants to be in subjection to their own masters, in all things to be wellpleasing to them,