Bible Verses about “pleasing the lord”
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.
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.”
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.”
“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”
“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].”
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
“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.”
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].”
“¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”
“Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”
“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”
“¶ 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.”
“¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”
“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”
“¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”
“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”
“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”
“(For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)”
“Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.”
“For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.”
“¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”
“But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.”
“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.›”
“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.”
“‹As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.›”
“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.”