116 occurrences

'Please' in the Bible

He said, "Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant's house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning." "No," they replied, "we'll spend the night in the town square."

Verse ConceptsFoot washingGuestsMorningServanthood, In SocietySalutationsHospitalityFeet WashingTravellersCity SquaresClean FeetThose Who Rose EarlyCare Of FeetStaying Temporarily

Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

But Lot said to them, "No, please, Lord!

Then Abimelech said, "Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please."

Verse ConceptsLiving In The Land

I will say to a young woman, 'Please lower your jar so I may drink.' May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master."

Verse ConceptsDrinksWater ContainersRequesting FoodMan Providing WaterSeeking A SignGod Appointing OthersGiving In Marriage

Abraham's servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug."

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersIndividuals RunningRequesting FoodMan Providing Water

"Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'

Verse ConceptsShouldersHeart, And Holy SpiritWater ContainersRequesting FoodDrawing WaterMan Providing WaterWhile Still SpeakingUnder One's BreathCarrying Other LoadsHeartfelt Prayer To God

But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you."

Verse ConceptsLearningBlessing Through God's People

Then Jacob asked, "Please tell me your name." "Why do you ask my name?" the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?What Is God's Name?Blessed By God

"No, please take them," Jacob said. "If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesSmiling

Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need." When Jacob urged him, he took it.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceBlessed By God

But Hamor made this appeal to them: "My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who LovedGiving In Marriagehumor

He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

Then Judah approached him and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

"So now, please let your servant remain as my lord's slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

Verse ConceptsVicarious SubstitutionHalf brothers

Then they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants' flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."

Verse ConceptsSojourningNo FoodLiving In The Land

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's royal court, "If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.' Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father." When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience

But Moses said, "O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!"

Verse ConceptsIndecisionAaron, PositionDifferent PersonGod Sending Prophets

If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeLaws Restricting ForeignersNot Pleasing PeopleUnfaithful

So Aaron said to Moses, "O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsFolly, Effects OfConfession, Examples OfAaron, Character

Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now."

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod Forgive!Love And Forgivenessgreatness

Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King's Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.'"

Verse ConceptsHighwayPassing ThroughRoadsVineyardWellsNot Turning AsideMan Providing Water

So now, please come and curse this nation for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed."

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyInvitationsSorcery And MagicCursing IsraelPeople Blessing

And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak son of Zippor: 'Please do not let anything hinder you from coming to me.

Verse ConceptsAvoid Being Hindered

Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me."

Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there."

Verse ConceptsSubdivisionsCursing Israel

Balak said to Balaam, "Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there."

Verse ConceptsAmbiguityCursing Israel

Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River -- this good hill country and the Lebanon!"

Verse ConceptsBeyond Jordan

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated AnimalsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Animals Having A SoulDeerEating Meat

When the Lord your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, "I want to eat meat just as I please," you may do so as you wish.

Verse ConceptsFood DefinedEating Meat

This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: "Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die."

Verse ConceptsAskingDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From GodRefusing To HearUnhearing

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, but you must not take away any in a container.

Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersBaskets, Uses OfGrapesVineyard

If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, in OTdivorce, amongst believersWritingDomestic ViolenceBills Of DivorceDivorce PermittedTroubling IndividualsSecond MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanInfidelity

She answered, "Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.

She answered, "Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

Gideon said to God, "Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew."

Verse ConceptsAskingTestingLet Not God Be AngryTestsexamsgideon

Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please allow us to pass through your land." But the king of Edom rejected the request. Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutPassing Through

Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, "Please allow us to pass through your land to our land."

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutPassing Through

She then said to her father, "Please grant me this one wish. For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity."

Verse ConceptsSympathyWeepingLeave Us Alonevirginity

Manoah prayed to the Lord, "Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God to visit us again, so he can teach us how we should raise the child who will be born."

Verse ConceptsGod TeachingMan Of GodNamed Individuals Who PrayedRaising Children

Manoah said to the Lord's messenger, "Please stay here awhile, so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat."

Verse ConceptsGoatsHospitality, Examples OfHospitalityTravellers

As Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate, he said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are Things?

Saul again replied, "I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God."

Verse ConceptsWe Have SinnedThe ElderlyPraising God In Public Worship

Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me."

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldRespect, For Human BeingsSanctity Of LifeRelations With ForeignersGrandmothers

Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, please inform your servant!" Then the Lord said, "He will come down."

Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come at the time of a holiday. Please provide us -- your servants and your son David -- with whatever you can spare."

Verse ConceptsGrace, In Human Relationships

Falling at his feet, she said, "My lord, I accept all the guilt! But please let your female servant speak with my lord! Please listen to the words of your servant!

Verse ConceptsFeetBowing Before David

Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish the house of my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!

Verse ConceptsForgive One AnotherFighting EnemiesForgiving Others Who Hurt You

Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, please remember your servant."

Verse ConceptsSheddingRestraints From KillingRemembering PeopleNot Avenging

But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said to him, "Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don't let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men?

Verse ConceptsSending people homeUnnamed People Angry With Others

Jonadab replied to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes in to see you, say to him, 'Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.'"

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestPretendingSick Individuals

So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came in to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can make a couple of cakes in my sight. Then I will eat from her hand."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitCakesPretendingSick Individuals

So David sent Tamar to the house saying, "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare some food for him."

So the Tekoan woman went to the king. She bowed down with her face to the ground in deference to him and said, "Please help me, O king!"

Verse ConceptsBeggarsProstrationBowing Before David

Then the woman said, "Please permit your servant to speak to my lord the king about another matter." He replied, "Tell me."

He said to the king, "Don't think badly of me, my lord, and don't recall the sin of your servant on the day when you, my lord the king, left Jerusalem! Please don't call it to mind!

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsNot Guilty

David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O Lord, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples OfGuilty ConsciencesConfession, Examples OfBeggarsGuilt, Human Aspects OfKnowledge, Of SinRegretRepentance, Examples OfFoolish PeopleWe Have Sinned

Now I'd like to ask you for just one thing. Please don't refuse me." She said, "Go ahead and ask."

He said, "Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won't refuse you."

Verse ConceptsInfatuationTransferring Wives

She said, "I would like to ask you for just one small favor. Please don't refuse me." He said, "Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you."

Verse ConceptsSmallness

Pharaoh said to him, "What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?" Hadad replied, "Nothing, but please give me permission to leave."

Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, "Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink."

Verse ConceptsWaterDrinking WaterFirewoodgathering

As she went to get it, he called out to her, "Please bring me a piece of bread."

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, "O Lord, my God, please let this boy's breath return to him."

Verse ConceptsPersonal ContactEmbracingActing Three TimesNamed Individuals Who PrayedTragedy

He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, "Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you." Elijah said to him, "Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?"

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingLove, And The WorldRespect, For Human BeingsUnquestioning ServiceParting From ParentsIndividuals Runninggoodbyes

So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says, 'Please let me live!'" Ahab replied, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."

Verse ConceptsWaistsRelativesLiving On

The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, "Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsKneelingBeggingFiftiesKept Alive By MenThird PersonMan Of God

Indeed, fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. So now, please have respect for my life."

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenDeath Due To God's PresenceFire From Heaven

He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman came and stood before him. He said, "For sure I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant."

Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofNo Other Is GodMan Of God

Naaman said, "If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the Lord.

Verse ConceptsMulesRight SacrificesWeights Of Other Things

He answered, "Everything is fine. My master sent me with this message, 'Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. Please give them a talent of silver and two suits of clothes.'"

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitHillsLying, Examples OfPeople Giving ClothesSons Of The ProphetsTwo Other ThingsTwo Other Men

Naaman said, "Please accept two talents of silver. He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.

Verse ConceptsPeople Giving ClothesTwo Other ThingsCarrying Other LoadsTwo Other MenTalents

One of them said, "Please come along with your servants." He replied, "All right, I'll come."

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyGoing Together

"Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfCommitment, to GodWeepingOthers MourningPeople Mourning Catastrophe

David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples OfBeggarsGuilt, Human Aspects OfRegretRepentance, Examples OfServanthood, In Life Of BelieversFoolish People

Jotham grew powerful because he was determined to please the Lord his God.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanThirty

Then I said, "Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant with those who love him and obey his commandments,

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfCommitment, to GodLoyaltyGod Is To Be FearedGod Keeps Covenantflexibility

Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: 'If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.

Verse ConceptsOutsidersServants Of The LordUnfaithfulness, To GodGod Scattering Israel

Please, O Lord, listen attentively to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me in the presence of this man." Now I was cupbearer for the king.

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfCupbearerReverence, And BlessingSuccessButlersFear Of God, Results OfProsperityPay Attention O God!Success Through GodGod As A Source Of Delight

Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

Verse ConceptsPleasing GodFavor

Please remember me for this, O my God, and do not wipe out the kindness that I have done for the temple of my God and for its services!

Verse ConceptsMemoriesCommitment, to GodDivine RemembranceBlotted Out

Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTPurifying Oneself

Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Israel's priests

I also provided for the wood offering at the appointed times and also for the first fruits. Please remember me for good, O my God.

Verse ConceptsPleasing GodFirewoodFirst fruits

My God, I trust in you. Please do not let me be humiliated; do not let my enemies triumphantly rejoice over me!

Verse ConceptsShameTrusting In GodRejoicing In EvilTrustTrusting God's PlanFaith And TrustDisappointmentProtection From Enemiespotential

Protect me and deliver me! Please do not let me be humiliated, for I have taken shelter in you!

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineNot AshamedSave Us!DisappointmentProtection And SafetyProtection From Danger

Please be willing, O Lord, to rescue me! O Lord, hurry and help me!

Verse ConceptsGod Help!Hurrying Others OnSave Us!

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!

Verse ConceptsCarvings Of FlowersMusicDivine DispleasureDispleasure

That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.

Verse ConceptsHornsRight Sacrifices

For the music director; by David; written to get God's attention. O God, please be willing to rescue me! O Lord, hurry and help me!

Verse ConceptsHasteGod Help!Hurrying Others OnSave Us!

I say, "O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

Verse ConceptsEarly Death

I called on the name of the Lord, "Please Lord, rescue my life!"

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described As

I was beside myself with joy! There please give me your myrrh, O daughter of my princely people.

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