Bible Verses About Pleasing the Lord
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for pleasing the lord, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 576 votes, led by Colossians 1:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pleasing the Lord
Colossians 1:1055 votes
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Proverbs 16:746 votes
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Galatians 1:1042 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.
2 Timothy 2:430 votes
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.
Romans 8:829 votes
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Philippians 2:1328 votes
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
John 17:1727 votes
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Hebrews 11:625 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.
Proverbs 3:724 votes
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
James 4:1722 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Revelation 3:1920 votes
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Philippians 4:618 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Ephesians 5:1-3317 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Psalms 1:1-316 votes
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms 147:10-1116 votes
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
Romans 14:17-1814 votes
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
James 1:614 votes
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Luke 4:18-1913 votes
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
2 Corinthians 5:9-1012 votes
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
Hebrews 13:412 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 John 4:1612 votes
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Proverbs 22:411 votes
By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.
Matthew 4:1011 votes
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
1 Thessalonians 2:411 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:1711 votes
Pray without ceasing.
What does the Bible say about pleasing the lord?
Readers most often cite Colossians 1:10 on the subject of pleasing the lord. Across 576 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 16:7, Galatians 1:10, 2 Timothy 2:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.