Bible Verses About Pleasing God
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for pleasing god, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 153,465 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 2:4. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pleasing God
1 Thessalonians 2:43,567 votes
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
Hebrews 11:63,383 votes
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.
Romans 12:1-23,128 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 8:83,099 votes
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Proverbs 16:73,025 votes
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
John 8:292,971 votes
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
1 John 3:222,799 votes
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Galatians 1:102,775 votes
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.
Romans 12:22,768 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Hebrews 13:162,665 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Psalms 19:142,555 votes
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
Romans 8:52,310 votes
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
John 5:302,184 votes
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Hosea 6:62,144 votes
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Philippians 2:12-162,138 votes
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Colossians 1:9-102,127 votes
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Romans 12:12,111 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Thessalonians 4:11,846 votes
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Colossians 3:231,764 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Philippians 2:131,760 votes
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Mark 12:331,744 votes
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Revelation 1:11,713 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
2 Corinthians 5:91,699 votes
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
1 Corinthians 10:311,697 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Ephesians 5:8-101,674 votes
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: