Bible Verses about โpleasing the lordโ
The Bible contains 45 verses about pleasing the lord across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โIn nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.โ
โHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;โ
โNevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.โ
โEven so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.โ
โWives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.โ
โFor no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;โ
โDon't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,โ
โ"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."โ
โFor the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.โ
โTo him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.โ
โthat he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,โ
โthat he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.โ
โBut as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.โ
โnor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.โ
โredeeming the time, because the days are evil.โ
โbecause we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.โ
โThis mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.โ
โHave no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.โ
โTherefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;โ
โspeaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;โ
โWithout faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.โ
โTherefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.โ
โBut sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;โ
โgiving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;โ
โWalk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.โ
โFor am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.โ
โsubjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.โ
โLet no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.โ
โFor you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,โ
โBe therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.โ
โKnow this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.โ
โTherefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."โ
โTherefore don't be partakers with them.โ
โfor the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,โ
โproving what is well pleasing to the Lord.โ
โFor the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.โ
โDon't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.โ
โBut all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.โ
โThose who are in the flesh can't please God.โ
โFor it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.โ
โSanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.โ
โthat you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;โ
โWhen a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.โ
โAs many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.โ
โNo soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.โ
