18 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

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

for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.

At that time Herod the king laid his hands on some of those of the assembly to do them hurt, and slew James, the brother of John, with the sword. And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to take Peter also: (and they were the days of unleavened bread:)

But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.

But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their favour, answering Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be judged before me concerning these things?

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

Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.

Chasten thy son, and he shall give thee rest, and shall give delight unto thy soul.

but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.

There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

He hath bent his bow like an enemy; he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that was pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he hath poured out his fury like fire.

And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Present it now unto thy governor: will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts.

They have heard that I sigh: I have no comforter: all mine enemies have heard of my calamity; they are glad that thou hast done it. Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.

bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;

To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.

Many seek the ruler's face; but a man's right judgment is from Jehovah.