What Does the Bible Say About Please The Lord?

Ephesians 5:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

1 Corinthians 7:32-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

James 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Hebrews 10:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Acts 2:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

John 14:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

12 Bible Verses about Please The Lord

Ephesians 5:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:32-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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12 Bible Verses about Please The Lord

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Ephesians 5:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:32-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes