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Bible Verses About Pleasing God Rather Than People
Find Bible verses about pleasing god rather than people — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about pleasing god rather than people?
The Bible addresses pleasing god rather than people with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Proverbs 8:10
“Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.”
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Proverbs 16:16
“How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.”
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Lamentations 4:7
“Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.”
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Psalms 52:3
“You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.”
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Psalms 29:11
“Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace. A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.”
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Acts 5:29
“But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.”
Acts 4:19
“But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,”
Ecclesiastes 7:1
“A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.”
Psalms 19:10
“More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.”
Matthew 6:25
“Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”
Hebrews 11:25
“choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;”
Luke 12:23
“Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.”
Job 35:11
“who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'”
Ecclesiastes 7:8
“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
Job 11:9
“Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.”
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Romans 9:25 — “As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,...”
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