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What Does the Bible Say About Pleasing God Rather Than People?

Here are 15 Bible verses about pleasing god rather than people, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Galatians 1:10

    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.

    BSBAm I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  2. #21 Thessalonians 2:4

    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.

    BSBInstead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts.

  3. #3John 12:43

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

    BSBFor they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

  4. #4Proverbs 29:25

    The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

    BSBThe fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high.

  5. #5Colossians 3:23

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

    BSBWhatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,

  6. #6Acts 5:29

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

    BSBBut Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

  7. #7Isaiah 2:22

    Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

    BSBPut no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

  8. #8Proverbs 16:7

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

    BSBWhen a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

  9. #9John 5:44

    How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

    BSBHow can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

  10. #10Romans 12:1-2

    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

    BSBTherefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

  11. #11Galatians 2:20

    I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

    BSBI have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

  12. #122 Corinthians 5:9

    Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

    BSBSo we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.

  13. #13Matthew 10:28

    And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

    BSBDo not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

  14. #141 Corinthians 10:31

    Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

    BSBSo whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

  15. #15Jeremiah 17:5

    Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

    BSBThis is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

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