pleasing god rather than people
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10For am I now persuading men, or God? Or, am I seeking to please men? If I still were pleasing men, then I would not be a servant of Christ.
4But, just as we have been tested by God, so that the Gospel would be entrusted to us, so also did we speak, not so as to please men, but rather to please God, who tests our hearts.
43For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
25Whoever fears man will quickly fall. Whoever hopes in the Lord shall be lifted up.
23Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as for the Lord, and not for men.
29But Peter and the Apostles responded by saying: “It is necessary to obey God, more so than men.
22Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted.
7When the ways of man will please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.
44How are you able to believe, you who accept glory from one another and yet do not seek the glory that is from God alone?
1And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. 2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
20I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.
9And thus we struggle, whether absent or present, to please him.
28And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But instead fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.
31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
5Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is a man who trusts in man, and who establishes what is flesh as his right arm, and whose heart withdraws from the Lord.