Pleasing The Lord

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased. — read the full passage →

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

and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance, — read the full passage →

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him, — read the full passage →

continually pray ye;

Then saith Jesus to him, `Go--Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

The end of humility <FI>is<Fi> the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that <FI>is<Fi> under the heaven, of which I became--I Paul--a ministrant.

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

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

how are ye able--ye--to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that <FI>is<Fi> from God alone ye seek not?

setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

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

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them. — read the full passage →

And the messenger answering said to the women, `Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Better <FI>is<Fi> a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--Christ's--

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath--round about?

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, — read the full passage →

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

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

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names <FI>are<Fi> in the book of life.

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

that through two immutable things, in which <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before <FI>us<Fi> ,

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

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil,

`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me; — read the full passage →

And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;

And there are also many other things--as many as Jesus did--which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.

and again another Writing saith, `They shall look to him whom they did pierce.'

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister--

he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner--I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?' — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Thou hast accepted, O Jehovah, Thy land, Thou hast turned <FI>to<Fi> the captivity of Jacob. — read the full passage →

And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart.

and it will come--the day of the Lord--as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, — read the full passage →

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the <FI>sons<Fi> of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'