The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Pleasing God Rather Than People

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
  • For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
  • Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
  • Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
  • And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
  • Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
  • 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.
  • 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 ...
  • How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
  • Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall ...
  • 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.
  • Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
  • When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.