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'Pleasing to God' in the Bible

And if any of the flesh of the peace-offering is taken as food on the third day, it will not be pleasing to God and will not be put to the account of him who gives it; it will be unclean and a cause of sin to him who takes it as food.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, Of WorshipThree Days

And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Verse ConceptsSexual ChastityWomen Doing WrongMan TrappingGodly WomanBitternessBreaking Chainsnagging

"May there be glory to God in the highest [heavens], and may there be peace on earth among men who are pleasing to God."

Verse ConceptsHymnsGod Is TranscendentGod On HighEarthNativity of Jesus ChristFavorPerspectiveluck

Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine FavourBuilding God's DwellingFavor

For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews??15 The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out??hey are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersImitatingTeachingImitating Good PeopleAntagonism From Jew And Gentile

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and who persecuted us, and [who are] not pleasing to God and [are] opposed to all people,

Verse ConceptsExcommunicationKilling ProphetsProphets KilledChrist Was KilledNot Pleasing GodRaceprophets

And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Godethics, incentives towardsAskingPleasing GodWatchfulness, Of LeadersBeing DevoutAbounding, Good ThingsGrowth In GraceLast WordsEncouraging One AnotherEncouraging Othersencouraginguplifting

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfFaith, As Basis Of SalvationCommendationExamples Of FaithAscension Of SaintsPleasing GodGod Lifting PeopleNot DyingExploits Of FaithNowhere To Be FoundPeople Who Didn't Dietransition

These people testify about your love [for them] before the [assembled] church. You will be doing a good thing to send them on their journey in a way that is pleasing to God [i.e., by furnishing them with travel expenses for their ministry].

Verse ConceptsAgape LoveEach Local ChurchGod Is WorthyLove Exists Between PeopleWitnessing

Pleasing to Godnot in Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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