Pleasing Man

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 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.

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

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,

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

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;

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,

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 →

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

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;

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

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

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

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

Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue, — read the full passage →

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

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 →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

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

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?

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

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 →

I--I <FI>am<Fi> He--your comforter, Who <FI>art<Fi> thou--and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man--grass he is made!

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

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;

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 →

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you--an odour of a sweet smell--a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

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

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

`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.

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed <FI>is<Fi> the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.

Cease for you from man, Whose breath <FI>is<Fi> in his nostrils, For--in what is he esteemed?

Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased. — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God <FI>is<Fi> witness!) — read the full passage →

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

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

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, — read the full passage →

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

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; — 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?

for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

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.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

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

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

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 →

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 →

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

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.

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

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart <FI>is<Fi> My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

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.

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name; — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

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

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

but a Jew <FI>is<Fi> he who is <FI>so<Fi> inwardly, and circumcision <FI>is<Fi> of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

Many are seeking the face of a ruler, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the judgment of each.

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'

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

Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

ye <FI>are<Fi> witnesses--God also--how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him, — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,