GALATIANS 1:10 - MAN'S FAVOR? Philip Veitch "For do I persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ." -- GALATIANS 1:10 Amid earlier observations, the force of 1.8, 9 carries into 1.10, what Luther calls (1) an "ardor" for God’s gospel. The sense: "Galatians, how 'bout it? What do you think, fellas? Do I seek God’s or man’s favor? What about the disputes, difficulties, trials, shipwrecks, false witnesses, assassination attempts, the stoning, and other foul barkings? At Iconium, Lystra or Derbe, for...