8 Bible Verses about Not Pleasing People

But Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious.

Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.

For even the Messiah did not please Himself. On the contrary, as it is written, The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but rather God, who examines our hearts.

If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.

Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry; Moses was also provoked.

When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand sinful, so he prayed to the Lord.

So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.