Men Pleasers

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; — read the full passage →

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting; — read the full passage →

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. — read the full passage →

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. — read the full passage →

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. — read the full passage →

“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — read the full passage →

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; — read the full passage →

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, — read the full passage →

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, — read the full passage →

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. — read the full passage →

and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. — read the full passage →

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.