18 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.

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

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly, and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword, and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food --

and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.

And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, 'Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'

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

for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,

Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

He hath trodden His bow as an enemy, Stood hath His right hand as an adversary, And He slayeth all the desirable ones of the eye, In the tent of the daughter of Zion, He hath poured out as fire His fury.

And when ye bring nigh the blind for sacrifice, 'There is no evil,' And when ye bring nigh the lame and sick, 'There is no evil;' Bring it near, I pray thee, to thy governor -- Doth he accept thee? or doth he lift up thy face? Said Jehovah of Hosts.

They have heard that I have sighed, There is no comforter for me, All my enemies have heard of my calamity, They have rejoiced that Thou hast done it, Thou hast brought in the day Thou hast called, And they are like to me.

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

Servants -- to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

For the holy ones who are in the land, And the honourable, all my delight is in them.

Many are seeking the face of a ruler, And from Jehovah is the judgment of each.