Pleasing The Lord

that 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;

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

For 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.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Without 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.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. — read the full passage →

for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. — read the full passage →

Pray without ceasing.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; — read the full passage →

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

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

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

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

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who 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 Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;

whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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

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

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me. — read the full passage →

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

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

He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob. — read the full passage →

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 which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

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

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”