What Does the Bible Say About Being Liked?

Galatians 1:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. ...

John 14:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

John 8:1-59 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” ...

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

1 John 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

John 8:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Acts 13:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

24 Bible Verses about Being Liked

Galatians 1:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 8:1-59 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 8:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 13:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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24 Bible Verses about Being Liked

Galatians 1:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 14:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 8:1-59 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Galatians 1:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 8:1-59 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 8:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 13:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes