People Pleasers

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; — read the full passage →

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance--for the Lord Christ ye serve;

for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; — read the full passage →

And now, thus said Jehovah, Thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy Fashioner, O Israel, Be not afraid, for I have redeemed thee, I have called on thy name--thou <FI>art<Fi> Mine. — read the full passage →

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God; — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God; — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word. — read the full passage →

`He who is faithful in the least, <FI>is<Fi> also faithful in much; and he who in the least <FI>is<Fi> unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers, — read the full passage →

as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many--that they may be saved.

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

For I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, I have not changed, And ye, the sons of Jacob, Ye have not been consumed.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

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

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him--a God, and he shall be to me--the son, — read the full passage →

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

God <FI>is<Fi> not a man--and lieth, And a son of man--and repenteth! Hath He said--and doth He not do <FI>it<Fi> ? And spoken--and doth He not confirm it?

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

that the man of God may be fitted--for every good work having been completed.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.

And Jesus having sat down over-against the treasury, was beholding how the multitude do put brass into the treasury, and many rich were putting in much, — read the full passage →

And the chief priests and the elders did persuade the multitudes that they might ask for themselves Barabbas, and might destroy Jesus; — read the full passage →

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,

how are ye able--ye--to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that <FI>is<Fi> from God alone ye seek not?

glory from man I do not receive,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, `Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.'

For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. — read the full passage →

The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

`Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you--for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.