Verse 10

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.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 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,
  • Acts 5:29 : 29 And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 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.
  • Eph 6:6 : 6 not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,
  • Rom 2:29 : 29 but a Jew `is' he who is `so' inwardly, and circumcision `is' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
  • 2 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him, 10 for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things `done' through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil; 11 having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;
  • Acts 4:19-20 : 19 and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye; 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'
  • Matt 22:16 : 16 and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;
  • Col 3:22 : 22 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;
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.
  • Matt 28:14 : 14 and if this be heard by the governor, we will persuade him, and you keep free from anxiety.'
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,