Biblical Concept: Please
New Testament Epistles: Please, Pleased, Pleasing, Pleasure
Findings
“in the flesh cannot please God”
Re weak: “not just please
ourselves”
Please, neighbor, edification.
Re the reproached: “Christ did not please Himself”
Re Unmarried:“please the
Lord”
Married: “please his wife.”
Wife: “please her husband”
RE salvation: “please all men in all things”
Please men versus bond-servant of Christ.
Flesh versus please God.
Re God: “please Him in all
respects”
Christian slaves: “as those who merely
please men”
Brethren: “walk and dplease God”
“please the one who enlisted him as a soldier”
“without faith it is impossible to please Him”
“pleased to make a contribution”
“they were pleased to do so”
“called me through His grace, was pleased”
Hebrews 13:16 And do not neglect doing good and asharing; for bwith
such sacrifices God is pleased.
“pleasing to Him”
Ephesians 5:10 1atrying to learn what is pleasing to the
Lord.
“we speak, cnot
as pleasing men but God”
15 awho
both killed the Lord Jesus and bthe
prophets, and 1drove us out. 2They are not pleasing to
God,
3but hostile to all
men,
Enoch: “he was pleasing to God”
“working in us that cwhich
is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ”
1 John 3:22 and awhatever
we ask we receive from Him, because we bkeep
His commandments and do
cthe things that are pleasing in His sight.
Philippians 2:13 for it is aGod
who is at work in you, both to will and to work bfor
His good pleasure.
Colossians 1:19 For 1it was athe
Father's good pleasure for all bthe 2fulness to dwell in Him,
“took pleasure in wickedness”
1 Timothy 5:6 But she who agives
herself to wanton pleasure is bdead even
while she lives.
2 Timothy 3:4 atreacherous, breckless, cconceited,
dlovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God;
Hebrews 10:6 aIn whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou
hast taken no pleasure.
8 After saying above, a"Sacrifices and offerings and bwhole burnt offerings and sacrifices cfor sin Thou
hast not desired, nor hast Thou
taken pleasure in them" (which
are offered according to the Law),
38 aBut
My righteous one shall live by faith; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.
“led a life of wanton pleasure”
They count it a pleasure to brevel in
the cdaytime.
Unbelievers: “various lusts and pleasures”
Unbelievers: “passing pleasures of sin”
James 4:1 1What is the source of quarrels and aconflicts among you? 2Is not the
source your pleasures
that wage bwar in your members?
“spend it 2on
your pleasures”
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NAS Romans 8:8 and those who are ain the flesh cannot please God. (“in the flesh
cannot please God”)
NAS Romans 15:1 Now we who are strong ought
to bear the weaknesses of athose without
strength and not just please
ourselves. (Re weak: “not just please
ourselves”)
2 Let each of us aplease his neighbor 1for his good,
to his bedification. (Please, neighbor,
edification.)
3 For even aChrist did not please Himself; but as it is
written, b"The reproaches of those
who reproached Thee fell upon Me." (Re the reproached: “Christ did not
please Himself”)
NAS 1 Corinthians 7:32 But I want you to be free
from concern. One who is aunmarried is
concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; (Re Unmarried:“please the Lord”)
33 but one who is married
is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his 1wife,
(Married: “please his wife.”)
34 and his interests are divided. And the woman
who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord,
that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is
concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. (Wife:
“please her husband”)
NAS 1 Corinthians 10:33 just as I also aplease all men in all things, bnot seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, cthat
they may be saved. (RE salvation: “please all men in all things”)
NAS Galatians 1:10 For am I now aseeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I
striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bbond-servant of Christ. (Please men versus
bond-servant of Christ.)
NAS Galatians 5:17 For athe
flesh 1sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, bso
that you may not do the things that you 2please. (Flesh versus
please God.)
NAS Colossians 1:10 so that you may awalk in a manner worthy of the Lord, 1bto
please Him in all respects, cbearing fruit in every good work and 2increasing
in the 3knowledge of God; (Re God: “please Him in all respects”)
NAS Colossians 3:22 aSlaves,
in all things obey those who are your masters 1on earth, bnot with 2external service, as those
who merely please men, but with
sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. (Christian slaves: “as those who merely please men”)
NAS 1 Thessalonians 4:1 aFinally
then, bbrethren, we request and exhort you
in the Lord Jesus, that, as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to 1cwalk and dplease God (just as you actually do 1walk),
that you may eexcel still more. (Brethren:
“walk and dplease God”)
NAS 2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier in active service
aentangles himself in the affairs of
everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.
(“please the one who enlisted him as a soldier”)
NAS Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is
impossible to please Him, for he who acomes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek
Him. (“without faith it is impossible to please Him”)
Pleased
NAS Romans 15:26 For aMacedonia
and bAchaia have been pleased to make a
contribution for the poor among the 1saints in Jerusalem. (“pleased
to make a contribution”)
27 Yes, they were pleased
to do so, and they are indebted to
them. For aif the Gentiles have shared in
their spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material
things. (“they were pleased to do so”)
NAS Galatians 1:15 But when He who had set me
apart, even from my mother's womb,
and acalled me through His grace, was
pleased (“called me through His grace, was pleased”)
NAS Hebrews 13:16 And do not neglect doing
good and asharing; for bwith
such sacrifices God is pleased. (All)
Pleasing
NAS 2 Corinthians 5:9 Therefore also we have as
our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be apleasing
to Him. (“pleasing to Him”)
NAS Ephesians 5:10 1atrying to learn
what is pleasing to the Lord. (All)
NAS 1 Thessalonians 2:4 abut just as we
have been approved by God to be bentrusted
with the gospel, so we speak, cnot as
pleasing men but God, who 1dexamines our hearts. (“we speak, cnot as pleasing men but God”)
15 awho
both killed the Lord Jesus and bthe
prophets, and 1drove us out. 2They are not pleasing to
God, 3but hostile to all men, (All)
NAS Hebrews 11:5 By faith aEnoch
was taken up so that he should not bsee
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. (Enoch: “he was pleasing to God”)
NAS Hebrews 13:21 aequip
you in every good thing to do His will, bworking
in us that cwhich is pleasing in His
sight, through Jesus Christ, dto whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
(“working in us that cwhich is pleasing in
His sight, through Jesus Christ”)
NAS 1 John 3:22 and awhatever
we ask we receive from Him, because we bkeep
His commandments and do cthe things that
are pleasing in His sight. (All)
Pleasure
NAS Philippians 2:13 for it is aGod who is at work in you, both to will and to
work bfor His good pleasure. (All)
NAS Colossians 1:19 For 1it was athe Father's
good pleasure for all bthe 2fulness
to dwell in Him, (All)
NAS 2 Thessalonians 2:12 in order that they all may
be 1judged who adid not believe
the truth, but 2btook pleasure in wickedness. (“took pleasure in
wickedness”)
NAS 1 Timothy 5:6 But she who agives herself to wanton pleasure is bdead even while she lives. (All)
NAS 2 Timothy 3:4 atreacherous,
breckless, cconceited,
dlovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God; (All)
NAS Hebrews 10:6 aIn
whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for
sin Thou hast taken no pleasure. (All)
8 After saying above, a"Sacrifices and offerings and bwhole burnt offerings and sacrifices cfor sin Thou hast
not desired, nor hast Thou taken pleasure in
them" (which are offered according to the Law),(All)
38 aBut
My righteous one shall live by faith; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him. (All)
NAS James 5:5 You have alived
luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have 1fattened
your hearts in ba day of slaughter. (“led
a life of wanton pleasure”)
NAS 2 Peter 2:13 suffering wrong as athe wages of doing wrong. They count it a
pleasure to brevel in the cdaytime. They are stains and blemishes, breveling in their 1deceptions, as
they dcarouse with you, (They count it a pleasure to brevel in the cdaytime.)
Pleasures
NAS Titus 3:3 aFor
we also once were foolish ourselves, bdisobedient,
cdeceived, denslaved
to evarious lusts and pleasures, spending
our life in fmalice and fenvy, hateful, hating one another.
(Unbelievers: “various lusts and pleasures”)
NAS Hebrews 11:25 choosing rather to aendure ill-treatment with the people of God,
than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin; (Unbelievers: “passing pleasures of
sin”)
NAS James 4:1 1What is the
source of quarrels and aconflicts among
you? 2Is not the source your pleasures that wage bwar
in your members? (All)
3 You ask and ado
not receive, because you ask 1with wrong motives, so that you may
spend it 2on your
pleasures. (“spend it 2on
your pleasures”)