Pleasing Men

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

• Tested
• Heart

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

• Heart

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

• Martyrdom

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

• Conscience
• Courage

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

• Self-delusion

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

• War

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

• Walking

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.