Pleasing Man
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Galatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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Greek
441. anthropareskos -- man-pleasing
... man-pleasing. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anthropareskos Phonetic
Spelling: (anth-ro-par'-es-kos) Short Definition: desirous of pleasing men ...
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2107. eudokia -- good pleasure
... good-will (good-pleasure), favor, feeling of complacency of God to man, (b) good ...
pleasure (1), good will (1), kind intention (2), pleased (1), well-pleasing (2 ...
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Strong's Hebrew
2896a. tob -- pleasant, agreeable, good
... 3), intelligent* (1), kind (1), like* (1), man (1), more* (2), one (1), one who
(1), one who (1), one who is good (1), one who is pleasing (1), pleasant (2 ...
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A Third Kind is "Pride" which is Pleasing to Man, not to God.
... Book X. Chapter XXXVI."A Third Kind is "Pride" Which is Pleasing to Man,
Not to God. 58. Shall we, then, account this too amongst ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/chapter xxxvi a third kind is.htm

The Works of the Unregenerate Can be Pleasing to God, and are ...
... Thus the confession, by which any one acknowledges himself to be "a cold, blind
and poor creature," is pleasing to God; and the man, therefore, flies to Christ ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/article xvi the works of.htm

On Pleasing all Men
... and not only to weak minds, as the desire of praise, whether deserved or undeserved,
is planted in every child of man. But it is pleasing only for a while. ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 100 on pleasing all.htm

Pleasing Christ
... These are the things which every Christian man and woman is bound by the power of ...
handicrafts, may each be sure that they are doing what is pleasing to Christ ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/pleasing christ.htm

Pleasing Christ
... His notion of acceptable service was service which a man suppressed much to render,
and ... a struggle and a dead lift, to live so as to be well-pleasing to Him. ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/pleasing christ.htm

The True Gnostic is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly ...
... of wisdom." [3608] But the perfect man, out of love, "beareth all things, endureth
all things," [3609] "as not pleasing man, but God." [3610] Although praise ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xii the true gnostic is.htm

On the Justification of Man Before God
... can be opposed to the rigid and severe judgment of God, though it is pleasing to
God ... But it may be thus defined, "it is a justification by which a man, who is a ...
/.../the works of james arminius vol 1/disputation 19 on the justification.htm

Redemption for Man Lost to be Sought in Christ.
... turns to our greater disgrace, until God, who does not acknowledge man when defiled ...
such, are under the curse, the children of wrath, cannot be pleasing to God ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 6 redemption for man.htm

The Lone Man who Went Before
... for Him as a man to have lived, and He lived another sort of life. It was an emergency
life, a life fitted to His Father's plan, and so the Father-pleasing life ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on following the christ/the lone man who went.htm

On the Covenant into which God Entered with Our First Parents
... difference between each [of these kinds of] obedience, that the first (Thesis I)
is true obedience and, in itself, pleasing to God; and the man who performs it ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 2/disputation xxix on the covenant.htm

Resources
Can a Christian be a model? Is a modeling career something a Christian can consider? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about self-gratification / self-pleasure? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about being a Christian wife? | GotQuestions.org

Pleasing: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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