68 Bible Verses about Pleasing God

I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;) Trying what is pleasing to the Lord.

Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him.

For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life.

For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men; For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity. For this good and acceptable before our Saviour God;

And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.

For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:

And I knew, my God, that thou triest the heart, and from uprightness thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness of my heart gave willingly all these: and now thy people were found here; I saw with gladness to show themselves willing to thee.

For thou wilt not delight in sacrifice, and thou wilt not take pleasure in burnt-offering. The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he in these serving Christ, pleasing to God, and acceptable to men.

For thou not a God delighting in injustice: and evil shall not dwell with thee.

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with praise. And it shall be good to Jehovah above an ox, a bullock shooting out horns and hoofs,

He will not delight in the strength of the horse: he will not be pleased in the legs of a man. Jehovah being delighted in those fearing him, in those hoping for his mercy.

For Jehovah delighted in his people: he will adorn the humble in salvation.

The perverse of heart are an abomination of Jehovah, and the blameless of way his delight

Lips of falsehood an abomination of Jehovah: and they doing faithfulness his delight

The sacrifice of the unjust an abomination of Jehovah: and the prayer of the upright his acceptance.

For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats. When ye shall come to be seen before me who sought this from your hand to tread my enclosure. Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining.

Delighting, shall I delight in the death of the unjust one? says the Lord Jehovah: not in his turning back from his way and living?

Say to them, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if I shall delight in the death of the unjust; but in the turning back of the unjust one from his way, and he lived: turn back, turn back from your evil ways: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel?

Thus said Jehovah of armies: Set your hearts upon your ways.

And this ye will do the second time, covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, with weepings and shrieks, from not any more looking to the gift, and to take delight from your hand. And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant

And they being in the flesh cannot please God.

And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out.

And burn all the ram upon the altar: this a burnt-offering to Jehovah: this a sacrifice, a smell of a sweet odor to Jehovah.

And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.

And thou shalt take them from their hand and burn upon the altar upon the burnt-offering for a smell of sweet odor before Jehovah: this a sacrifice to Jehovah.

And its bowels and its legs he shall wash in water: and the priest burnt all upon the altar, a burnt-offering a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.

And Aaron's sons burnt it upon the altar, upon the burnt-offering which is upon the wood, which is upon the fire: a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.

And ye did a sacrifice to Jehovah, a burnt-offering or a sacrifice to separate a vow, or in willingness, or in your assemblies, to make an odor of sweetness to Jehovah, from the oxen or from the sheep:

And ye did the burnt-offering for an odor of sweetness to Jehovah; one bullock, the son of a cow, one ram, seven blameless lambs, sons of a year.

That therefore bringing near sweet odors to the God of the heavens, praying for the life of the king and his sons.

And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

From Jehovah the steps of a man were prepared, and he will delight in his way.

Jehovah thy God will be blessed, who delighted in thee to give thee upon the throne of Israel: in Jehovah's loving Israel forever, and he will set thee up for king to do judgment and justice.

He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice.

The ways of a man being accepted of Jehovah also he will make his enemies friends with him.

And the God of peace, having brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ, Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.

Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:

And the world passes away, and its eager desires: but he doing the will of God remains for ever.

Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I did for this people

The saying of my mouth and the meditation of my heart shall be for acceptance before thee, O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer.

And Moses will supplicate the face of Jehovah, his God, and will say, For what will thy wrath kindle against thy people which thou didst bring forth out of the land of Egypt by thy great power and with a strong hand?

And for the bringing near the woods in the times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember to me, O my God for good.

And the sweetness of Jehovah our God shall be upon us: and the work of our hands prepare thou it upon us; and the work of our hands prepare thou it.

My meditating upon him shall be sweet: I will rejoice in Jehovah.

And now, O our God, hear to the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy desolated holy place, for sake of Jehovah.

And behold a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.

And a voice was from the heavens; Thou art my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.

And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him, and there was a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my dearly loved Son; in thee I was contented.

He yet speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented; hear ye him.

I can do nothing of myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; for I seek not my will, but the will of the Father having sent me.

And he having sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always things pleasing to him.

For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell:

For having received from God the Father honour and glory, and such a voice brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.

And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

And Moses will say to Jehovah, See, thou sayest to me, Bring up this people: and thou madest not known to me whom thou wilt send with me. And thou saidst, I knew thee by name, and also thou didst find favor in mine eyes. And now, if now I found grace in thine eyes, make known to me now thy way, and I shall know thee, so that I shall find grace in thine eyes: and see that thy people is this nation.

And the boy Samuel going, will become great and good, also with Jehovah and with men.

And the word will be good in the eyes of God that Solomon asked this word.

And the messenger said to her, Fear not, Mary: thou hast found grace with God.

By faith Enoch was transferred not to see death; and was not found, because God had transferred him: for before his transferring he had been testified of, to have pleased God.