'Pleasing' in the Bible

It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.

This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.

May my meditation be pleasing to Him;I will rejoice in the Lord.

But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey.

See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing.

The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

When their rulers will be thrown offthe sides of a cliff,the people will listen to my words,for they are pleasing.

Give praise to the Lord; for it is good to make melody to our God; praise is pleasing and beautiful.

for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.

Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

The lips of the righteous know a pleasing thing, And the mouth of the wicked perverseness!

Whoso is earnestly seeking good Seeketh a pleasing thing, And whoso is seeking evil -- it meeteth him.

Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright -- a pleasing thing.

Evil plans and thoughts of the wicked are exceedingly vile and offensive to the Lord,But pure words are pleasant words to Him.

When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord,He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.

Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

For it is pleasing if you keep them within youand if they are constantly on your lips.

The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

by knowledge its rooms are filled with all kinds of precious and pleasing treasures.

But there will be delight for those who convict the guilty, and a pleasing blessing will come on them.

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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.

Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.

Light is sweet,and it is pleasing for the eyes to see the sun.

The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth.

“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance,Your name is like purified oil;Therefore the maidens love you.

I say, "I will climb up the palm tree; I will lay hold of its fruit clusters." Let your breasts [be pleasing] like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like the apples.

The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

"Look! You and your work are less than nothing; whoever finds you pleasing is disgusting."

For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:

I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices Are for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For My house, 'A house of prayer,' Is called for all the peoples.

Is this really the kind of fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the Lord?

All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.

Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.

What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

What good is frankincense that comes from Sheba to me, or sweet cane from a distant country? Your burnt offerings aren't acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me."

“I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.

Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.

His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

You will all know that I am Yahweh when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak—the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.

You also set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I gave you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I fed you. That is what happened.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.

When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will demonstrate My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.

"Son of man, look! I [am] taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague, but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down.

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?

And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

It is pleasing to me to recount the signs and wonders that the Most High God worked for me.

Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

Should [this] be said, O house of Jacob? Is the patience of Yahweh shortened? [Are] these his deeds? Are my words not pleasing to him who walks upright?

And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.

And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.

Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.

Yes, Father, because this is what was pleasing to you.

And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross.

At that moment, the Holy Spirit made Jesus extremely joyful, so Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this is what was pleasing to you.

“I can do nothing on my own initiative or authority. Just as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just (fair, righteous, unbiased), because I do not seek My own will, but only the will of Him who sent Me.

and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'

and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, 'It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables;

And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

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

But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food --

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For the person who serves the Messiah in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

Now we who are strong ought to be patient with the weaknesses of those who are not strong and must stop pleasing ourselves.

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

So that I may be kept safe from those in Judaea who have not put themselves under the rule of God, and that the help which I am taking for Jerusalem may be pleasing to the saints;

But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.

But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.

For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

discerning what is pleasing to the Lord.

Finally, brothers, whatever [things] are true, whatever [things are] honorable, whatever [things are] right, whatever [things are] pure, whatever [things are] pleasing, whatever [things are] commendable, if [there is] any excellence of character and if anything praiseworthy, think about these [things].

But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

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.

This [kind of praying] is good and acceptable and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.

A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,

Urge bond-servants to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be pleasing and not talk back,

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.