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What it means

To please, to seek someone's approval. In 2:4, Paul says they speak "not as pleasing men, but God." In Galatians 1:10, "if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ."

Range of meaning

• PleaseSatisfy.
• Seek approvalAim to win someone over.

In 1 Thessalonians

• Chapter 2

  "Not as pleasing men, but God" (2:4, 2:15).

• Chapter 4

  "And to please God" (4:1).