12 Bible Verses about Pleasing Men

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

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

for they loved the glory of men, rather than the glory of God.

Now about that time Herod the king put forth his bands to harm some of the assembly. And he slew James, the brother of John, with the sword; and, seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. And then were the days of unleavened bread.

But, when two years were completed, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; and, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

But Festus, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, answering, said to Paul, "Are you willing, having gone up to Jerusalem, to be judged there concerning these things before me?"

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

Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification;

but he that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

No one, serving as a soldier, entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting,