Bible Verses About Pleasing People
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for pleasing people, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 944 votes, led by Galatians 1:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pleasing People
Galatians 1:10170 votes
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.
Romans 12:2111 votes
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.
1 Thessalonians 2:458 votes
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.
Colossians 3:2350 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Philippians 4:641 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Proverbs 29:2538 votes
The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
Proverbs 16:733 votes
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Romans 12:1-229 votes
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.
Romans 12:125 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:8-1025 votes
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Acts 5:2924 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Romans 15:223 votes
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Galatians 2:2023 votes
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.
John 12:4320 votes
For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Philippians 3:1318 votes
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Isaiah 2:2217 votes
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Hebrews 11:617 votes
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
1 Corinthians 10:3115 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Philippians 4:1315 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Luke 1:3714 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Ephesians 6:614 votes
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Matthew 10:2813 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:1013 votes
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Colossians 3:22-2513 votes
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Isaiah 41:1011 votes
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
What does the Bible say about pleasing people?
Readers most often cite Galatians 1:10 on the subject of pleasing people. Across 944 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 12:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:4, Colossians 3:23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.