What Does the Bible Say About Not Caring What Others Think?

Galatians 1:10 ESV / 210 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.

Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 99 helpful votes

The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Matthew 5:10-12 ESV / 65 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Jeremiah 17:5 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 45 helpful votes

But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.

Matthew 10:32-33 ESV / 31 helpful votes

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

1 Corinthians 4:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

Revelation 3:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

John 5:44 ESV / 19 helpful votes

How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 3:16 ESV / 15 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.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Luke 6:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

John 2:24-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 5:41-42 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I do not receive glory from people. But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

2 Corinthians 5:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

Revelation 1:1-22:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, ...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...

2 Corinthians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

26 Bible Verses about Not Caring What Others Think

Galatians 1:10 ESV / 210 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Matthew 5:10-12 ESV / 65 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:5 ESV / 50 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Matthew 10:32-33 ESV / 31 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Revelation 3:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

John 5:44 ESV / 19 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes

John 3:1-36 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Luke 6:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 2:24-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 5:41-42 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 1:1-22:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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26 Bible Verses about Not Caring What Others Think

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Revelation 3:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Galatians 1:10 ESV / 210 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Matthew 5:10-12 ESV / 65 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:5 ESV / 50 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Matthew 10:32-33 ESV / 31 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Revelation 3:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

John 5:44 ESV / 19 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes

John 3:1-36 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Luke 6:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 2:24-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 5:41-42 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 1:1-22:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes