When you need Man’s Approval

1 Corinthians 4:3-4 (New International Version, ©2011)
³ I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. ⁴ My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.

Acts 5:29 (New International Version, ©2011)

 ²⁹ Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!

Colossians 1:1 (New International Version, ©2011)

Colossians 1

 ¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 1:10 (New International Version, ©2011)

¹⁰ so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

1 Thessalonians 2:4 (New International Version, ©2011)

⁴ On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts.

Galatians 1:10 (New International Version, ©2011)

 ¹⁰ Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Romans 8:9 (New International Version, ©2011)

 ⁹ You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.