Q509
Why can pleasing people and trusting in human beings be against the First Commandment?
The impulse to please others, or to place our trust in another rather than in God, is dangerous: when the one whom we seek to please, or in whom we trust, causes us to forget God or set him in second place, it is as though we had another god. Even regarding the praiseworthy desire of a married man to please his wife, the Apostle counsels undivided devotion to the Lord (1Co 7:32–35; see Q359).
