12 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

For do I now persuade you to obey men or God? Or do I seek to please men? if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Even as I also endeavour to please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

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

About that time Herod the king exerted his power to distress some of the church. And he cut off James, the brother of John, with the sword. And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also, (in the days of unleavened bread:)

But after two years Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; and being willing to gain favor with the Jews lest Paul confined.

But Festus, being desirous to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there to be tried concerning these things before me?

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

but let every one of us please our neighbor for his good, to his edification.

that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how he may please his wife.

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

No one, that enters into military service, embarrasseth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him.

Exhort servants to submit to their masters, to be obsequious in all things,