Pleasing (185 Occurrences)

Matthew 11:26 Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. (WEB ASV BBE DBY NAS)

Mark 15:15 And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross. (BBE)

Luke 10:21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight." (WEB ASV BBE DBY NAS)

John 5:30 Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me. (BBE)

John 8:29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." (WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Acts 6:2 and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, 'It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables; (YLT)

Acts 6:5 And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew: (BBE YLT)

Acts 7:46 Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob. (BBE)

Acts 10:35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him. (BBE)

Acts 12:3 And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he went on to take Peter in addition. This was at the time of the feast of unleavened bread. (BBE DBY YLT)

Romans 12:1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him. (BBE NIV)

Romans 12:2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. (WEB BBE NIV)

Romans 14:18 For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men. (ASV BBE NIV)

Romans 15:16 To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit. (BBE)

Romans 15:31 So that I may be kept safe from those in Judaea who have not put themselves under the rule of God, and that the help which I am taking for Jerusalem may be pleasing to the saints; (BBE)

1 Corinthians 4:19 But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power. (BBE)

1 Corinthians 12:18 But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him. (BBE)

1 Corinthians 15:38 But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body. (BBE)

2 Corinthians 5:9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. (WEB ASV BBE YLT NAS)

Galatians 1:10 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. (WEB ASV BBE DBY RSV)

Ephesians 5:10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. (WEB WEY ASV BBE YLT NAS RSV)

Philippians 4:18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; (KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. (KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 Thessalonians 2:4 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. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 Thessalonians 2:12 So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory. (BBE)

1 Thessalonians 2:15 Those Jewish persecutors killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and drove us out of their midst. They are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind; (Root in WEY BBE YLT NAS)

1 Thessalonians 4:1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more. (BBE)

1 Timothy 2:3 This is right, and is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour, (WEY BBE)

1 Timothy 5:4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God. (WEY BBE NIV)

2 Timothy 2:4 A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army. (BBE)

Titus 2:9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting; (WEB ASV BBE YLT NAS)

Hebrews 11:5 By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. (WEB ASV BBE NAS)

Hebrews 11:6 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. (WEB ASV BBE)

Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: (ASV BBE YLT)

Hebrews 13:16 and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased. (See RSV)

Hebrews 13:21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Peter 2:5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ. (BBE)

1 Peter 2:20 What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God. (BBE)

1 John 3:22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (See NAS NIV)

Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (See NIV)

Genesis 6:2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them. (BBE)

Genesis 8:21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done. (See RSV NIV)

Genesis 27:4 And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me. (BBE)

Genesis 34:18 And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem. (BBE)

Genesis 49:15 And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant. (BBE)

Exodus 21:8 If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her. (BBE NAS)

Exodus 28:38 And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord. (BBE YLT)

Exodus 29:18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Exodus 29:25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Exodus 29:41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 1:3 If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord. (BBE)

Leviticus 1:9 but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 1:13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 1:17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 2:2 He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 2:9 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 2:12 As an offering of firstfruits you shall offer them to Yahweh: but they shall not ascend for a pleasant aroma on the altar. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 3:5 Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 3:16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh's. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 4:31 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 6:15 He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial, to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 6:21 It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 7:18 And if any of the flesh of the peace-offering is taken as food on the third day, it will not be pleasing to God and will not be put to the account of him who gives it; it will be unclean and a cause of sin to him who takes it as food. (BBE YLT)

Leviticus 8:21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 8:28 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 10:19 Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of Yahweh?" (WEB JPS ASV BBE)

Leviticus 10:20 When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight. (WEB JPS ASV)

Leviticus 17:6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 19:5 And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord. (BBE)

Leviticus 19:7 If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord. (BBE YLT)

Leviticus 22:19 So that it may be pleasing to the Lord, let him give a male, without any mark, from among the oxen or the sheep or the goats. (BBE)

Leviticus 22:20 But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord. (BBE YLT)

Leviticus 22:21 And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage. (BBE YLT)

Leviticus 22:23 As to an ox or a sheep enlarged or dwarfed -- a willing-offering ye do make it, but for a vow it is not pleasing. (YLT)

Leviticus 22:25 And from the hand of a son of a stranger ye do not bring near the bread of your God, of any of these, for their corruption 'is' in them; blemish 'is' in them; they are not pleasing for you.' (YLT)

Leviticus 22:27 When ox or lamb or goat is born, and it hath been seven days under its dam, then from the eighth day and henceforth, it is pleasing for an offering, a fire-offering to Jehovah; (YLT)

Leviticus 22:29 And when you make an offering of praise to the Lord, make it in a way which is pleasing to him. (BBE)

Leviticus 23:11 And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest. (BBE)

Leviticus 23:13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 23:18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Leviticus 26:31 And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes; (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:5 Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste: (BBE)

Numbers 15:3 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock; (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 15:7 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 15:10 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 15:13 "'All who are native-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 15:14 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 18:17 "But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 22:32 And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me. (BBE)

Numbers 28:2 "Command the children of Israel, and tell them,'My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you shall observe to offer to me in their due season.' (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 28:6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 28:8 The other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 28:13 and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 28:24 After this manner you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 28:27 but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 29:2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 29:6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. (See RSV NIV)

Numbers 29:8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; (See RSV NIV)

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Pleasing (185 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Please. 2. (a.) Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable
emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. ...
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Well-pleasing (16 Occurrences)
Well-pleasing. << Wellpleasing, Well-pleasing. Well-pleasingly >>.
Multi-Version Concordance Well-pleasing (16 Occurrences). ...
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Self-pleasing (1 Occurrence)
Self-pleasing. << Self-mutilators, Self-pleasing. Self-produced >>.
Multi-Version Concordance Self-pleasing (1 Occurrence). ...
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Lovely (19 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love;
beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. ...
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Relish (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (vt) To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably. 3. (vi) To have a pleasing
or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor. ...
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Sweet (147 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet
rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. 3. (superl.) Pleasing...
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Looks (76 Occurrences)
... RSV NIV). 1 Samuel 16:12 So he sent and made him come in. Now he had red
hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord ...
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Please (324 Occurrences)
... I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my
decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself ...
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Pleases (51 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). John 8:29 and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me
alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.' (See NIV). ...
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Trying (68 Occurrences)
... Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be
a servant of Christ. ... Ephesians 5:10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. ...
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2101. euarestos -- well-pleasing
... well-pleasing. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: euarestos Phonetic Spelling:
(yoo-ar'-es-tos) Short Definition: acceptable, well-pleasing Definition ...
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701. arestos -- pleasing, ie fit
... pleasing, ie fit. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: arestos Phonetic Spelling:
(ar-es-tos') Short Definition: pleasing, satisfactory, acceptable ...
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441. anthropareskos -- man-pleasing
... man-pleasing. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anthropareskos Phonetic
Spelling: (anth-ro-par'-es-kos) Short Definition: desirous of pleasing men ...
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699. areskia -- a desire to please, pleasing
... a desire to please, pleasing. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: areskia
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-es'-ki-ah) Short Definition: pleasing, willing ...
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4375. prosphiles -- pleasing, agreeable
... pleasing, agreeable. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: prosphiles Phonetic
Spelling: (pros-fee-lace') Short Definition: pleasing, acceptable Definition ...
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2100. euaresteo -- to be well-pleasing
... to be well-pleasing. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: euaresteo Phonetic Spelling:
(yoo-ar-es-teh'-o) Short Definition: I please Definition: I give ...
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829. authades -- self-pleasing
... self-pleasing. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: authades Phonetic Spelling:
(ow-thad'-ace) Short Definition: self-satisfied, arrogant Definition: self ...
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2102. euarestos -- acceptably
... of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: euarestos Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-ar-es'-toce)
Short Definition: acceptably Definition: acceptably, in a well-pleasing way. ...
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2107. eudokia -- good pleasure
... Origin from eudokeo Definition good pleasure NASB Word Usage desire (2), good pleasure
(1), good will (1), kind intention (2), pleased (1), well-pleasing (2). ...
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2144. euprosdektos -- acceptable
... euprosdektos Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-pros'-dek-tos) Short Definition: well-received,
acceptable Definition: well-received, acceptable, welcome, pleasing. ...
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