Related Verses

Here are verses that contain the word "please":

Total verses with the word please: 135

• genesis 16:6 - But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
• genesis 20:15 - And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
• genesis 28:8 - And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
• genesis 31:35 - And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched but found not the images.
• genesis 33:10 - And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
• genesis 34:18 - And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
• genesis 38:10 - And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
• genesis 45:16 - And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
• genesis 48:17 - And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
• exodus 21:8 - If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
• numbers 11:1 - And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
• numbers 11:10 - Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
• numbers 22:34 - And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
• numbers 23:27 - And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
• numbers 24:1 - And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
• deuteronomy 1:23 - And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
• joshua 22:30 - And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
• joshua 22:33 - And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
• judges 13:23 - But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
• judges 14:3 - Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
• judges 14:7 - And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
• 1samuel 8:6 - But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
• 1samuel 12:22 - For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
• 1samuel 18:8 - And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
• 1samuel 18:20 - And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
• 1samuel 18:26 - And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
• 1samuel 20:13 - The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will show it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
• 1samuel 29:7 - Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
• 2samuel 3:36 - And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
• 2samuel 6:8 - And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
• 2samuel 7:29 - Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
• 2samuel 11:25 - Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
• 2samuel 11:27 - And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
• 2samuel 17:4 - And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
• 2samuel 19:6 - In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
• 1kings 1:6 - And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
• 1kings 3:10 - And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.
• 1kings 9:1 - And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
• 1kings 9:12 - And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
• 1kings 20:43 - And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
• 1kings 21:4 - And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
• 1kings 21:6 - And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
• 1chronicles 13:11 - And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
• 1chronicles 17:27 - Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
• 1chronicles 21:7 - And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
• 2chronicles 10:7 - And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
• 2chronicles 30:4 - And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
• nehemiah 2:5 - And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
• nehemiah 2:6 - And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
• nehemiah 2:7 - Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
• esther 1:19 - If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
• esther 1:21 - And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
• esther 2:4 - And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
• esther 2:9 - And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
• esther 3:9 - If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
• esther 5:8 - If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
• esther 5:14 - Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
• esther 7:3 - Then esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
• esther 8:5 - And said, If it please the king, and if I have favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
• esther 9:13 - Then said esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
• job 6:9 - Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
• job 20:10 - His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
• psalm 40:13 - Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
• psalm 51:19 - Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
• psalm 60:1 - O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
• psalm 69:31 - This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
• psalm 115:3 - But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
• psalm 135:6 - Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
• proverbs 16:7 - When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• proverbs 24:18 - Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
• ecclesiastes 7:26 - And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
• ecclesiastes 8:3 - Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
• songofsongs 2:7 - I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
• songofsongs 3:5 - I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
• songofsongs 8:4 - I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
• isaiah 2:6 - Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
• isaiah 42:21 - The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
• isaiah 53:10 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
• isaiah 55:11 - So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
• isaiah 56:4 - For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
• isaiah 59:15 - Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
• daniel 6:1 - It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
• daniel 6:14 - Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
• jonah 1:14 - Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
• jonah 4:1 - But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
• micah 6:7 - Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
• habakkuk 3:8 - Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
• zechariah 1:2 - The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
• zechariah 1:15 - And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
• malachi 1:8 - And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
• matthew 3:17 - And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• matthew 12:18 - Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
• matthew 14:6 - But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
• matthew 17:5 - While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
• matthew 21:15 - And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,
• mark 1:11 - And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• mark 6:22 - And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
• mark 10:14 - But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
• mark 10:41 - And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.
• luke 3:22 - And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
• john 8:29 - And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
• acts 6:5 - And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
• acts 12:3 - And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
• acts 12:20 - And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.
• acts 15:22 - Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
• acts 15:34 - Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
• romans 8:8 - So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• romans 15:1 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• romans 15:2 - Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
• romans 15:3 - For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
• romans 15:26 - For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
• romans 15:27 - It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
• 1corinthians 1:21 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
• 1corinthians 7:12 - But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
• 1corinthians 7:13 - And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
• 1corinthians 7:32 - But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
• 1corinthians 7:33 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
• 1corinthians 7:34 - There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
• 1corinthians 10:5 - But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• 1corinthians 10:33 - Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
• 1corinthians 12:18 - But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
• 1corinthians 15:38 - But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
• galatians 1:10 - 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.
• galatians 1:15 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
• ephesians 6:6 - Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
• colossians 1:19 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
• colossians 3:22 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;
• 1thessalonians 2:15 - Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
• 1thessalonians 4:1 - 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.
• 2timothy 2:4 - 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.
• titus 2:9 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
• hebrews 11:5 - By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
• hebrews 11:6 - 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.
• hebrews 13:16 - But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• 2peter 1:17 - For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.