17 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

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

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

Now about that time Herod the king threw on hands to harm some of those from the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And after seeing that it was pleasing the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also (and those were the days of unleavened bread),

But two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus. And wanting to lay down favors to the Jews, Felix left behind Paul bound.

But Festus, wanting to lay down a favor to the Jews, having answered Paul, said, Are thou willing, after going up to Jerusalem, to be judged there about these things before me?

Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

Let each of us please his neighbor for what is good toward edification.

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.

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

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion.

And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [ye say,] It is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to thy governor. Will he be pleased with thee, or will he accept thy person? says LORD of hosts.

No man who serves in the military entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the man who enlisted the army.

Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary,

As for the sanctified who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice [is] from LORD.