Pleasing The Lord

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

When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. — read the full passage →

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. — read the full passage →

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, — read the full passage →

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. — read the full passage →

Pray without ceasing.

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.

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.

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? — read the full passage →

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; — read the full passage →

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; — read the full passage →

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: — read the full passage →

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; — read the full passage →

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — read the full passage →

And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: — read the full passage →

And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? — read the full passage →

Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. — read the full passage →

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. — read the full passage →

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.