Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Pleasing’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Pleasing’ occurs 80 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 1:3 if his offering will be a holocaust, as well as from the herd, he shall offer an immaculate male at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, to make himself pleasing to the Lord.Leviticus 1:3
Leviticus 4:7 And he shall place some of the same blood over the horns of the altar of most pleasing incense to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. Then he shall pour out the remainder of the blood at the base of the altar of holocaust at the entrance of the tabernacle.Leviticus 4:7
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Leviticus: 2
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 5:8 But if there would be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be for the priest, except for the ram, which is offered for expiation, in order to be a pleasing victim.Numbers 5:8
Numbers 24:1 And when Balaam had seen that it was pleasing to the Lord that he should bless Israel, he by no means went out as he had gone before, to seek divination. But directing his face opposite the desert,Numbers 24:1
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Numbers: 2
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1:23 And since the word was pleasing to me, I sent from among you twelve men, one from each tribe.Deuteronomy 1:23
Deuteronomy 6:18 And do what is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, so that it may be well with you, and so that, when you enter, you may possess the excellent land, about which the Lord swore to your fathersDeuteronomy 6:18
Deuteronomy 12:25 so that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, when you will do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.Deuteronomy 12:25
Deuteronomy 12:28 Observe and heed all the things that I instruct to you, so that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, continually, when you will do what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord your God.Deuteronomy 12:28
Deuteronomy 13:18 when you will heed the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all his precepts, which I am entrusting to you this day, so that you may do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord your God.”Deuteronomy 13:18
Deuteronomy 33:24 Likewise, to Asher he said: “Let Asher be blessed with sons. Let him be pleasing to his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.Deuteronomy 33:24
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Deuteronomy: 6
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 2:26 But the youth Samuel advanced, and grew up, and he was pleasing to the Lord, as well as to men.1 Samuel 2:26
1 Samuel 14:7 And his armor bearer said to him: “Do all that is pleasing to your soul. Go wherever you wish, and I will be with you, wherever you will choose.”1 Samuel 14:7
1 Samuel 18:22 And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately, saying: “Behold, you are pleasing to the king, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, be the son-in-law of the king.”1 Samuel 18:22
1 Samuel 18:26 And when his servants had repeated to David the words that Saul had spoken, the word was pleasing in the eyes of David, so that he would become son-in-law of the king.1 Samuel 18:26
1 Samuel 24:4 And the servants of David said to him: “Behold the day, about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will deliver your enemy to you, so that you may do to him as it will be pleasing in your eyes.’ ” Then David rose up, and he quietly cut off the edge of Saul’s cloak.1 Samuel 24:4
1 Samuel 29:6 Therefore, Achish called David, and he said to him: “As the Lord lives, you are good and righteous in my sight, even in your departure and your return with me in the military camp. And I have not found anything evil in you, from the day that you came to me, even to this day. But you are not pleasing to the princes.1 Samuel 29:6
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 1 Samuel: 6
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 3:19 Then Abner also spoke to Benjamin. And he went away, so that he might speak to David in Hebron all that would be pleasing to Israel and to all of Benjamin.2 Samuel 3:19
2 Samuel 3:36 And all the people heard it, and everything that the king did in the sight of the entire people was pleasing to them.2 Samuel 3:36
2 Samuel 15:26 But if he will say to me, ‘You are not pleasing,’ I am ready. Let him do whatever is good in his own sight.”2 Samuel 15:26
2 Samuel 19:27 Moreover, he also accused me, your servant, to you, my lord the king. But you, my lord the king, are like an Angel of God. Do whatever is pleasing to you.2 Samuel 19:27
2 Samuel 19:38 And so the king said to him: “Let Chimham cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever will be pleasing to you. And all that you ask of me, you shall obtain.”2 Samuel 19:38
2 Samuel 22:20 And he led me out to a wide-open place. He freed me, because I was pleasing to him.2 Samuel 22:20
2 Samuel 24:22 And Araunah said to David: “May my lord the king offer and accept whatever is pleasing to him. You have oxen for a holocaust, and the cart and the yokes of the oxen to use for wood.”2 Samuel 24:22
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 2 Samuel: 7
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 3:10 And the word was pleasing before the Lord, that Solomon had requested this kind of thing.1 Kings 3:10
1 Kings 9:19 And all the towns which belonged to him, and which were without walls, he walled, along with the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and whatever was pleasing to him that he might build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in the entire land of his dominion.1 Kings 9:19
1 Kings 11:6 And Solomon did what was not pleasing in the sight of the Lord. And he did not continue to follow the Lord, as his father David did.1 Kings 11:6
1 Kings 14:8 and I tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and I gave it to you, yet you have not been like David, my servant, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with his whole heart, doing what was pleasing in my sight.1 Kings 14:8
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 1 Kings: 4
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 10:30 Then the Lord said to Jehu: “Since you have diligently carried out what was right and pleasing in my eyes, and since you have accomplished, against the house of Ahab, all that was in my heart, your sons shall sit upon the throne of Israel, even to the fourth generation.”2 Kings 10:30
2 Kings 15:3 And he did what was pleasing before the Lord, in accord with all that his father, Amaziah, did.2 Kings 15:3
2 Kings 15:34 And he did what was pleasing before the Lord. In accord with all that his father, Uzziah, had done, so he did.2 Kings 15:34
2 Kings 16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, his God, as his father David did.2 Kings 16:2
2 Kings 20:3 “I beg you, O Lord, I beseech you, remember how I have walked before you in truth, and with a perfect heart, and how I have done what is pleasing before you.” And then Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.2 Kings 20:3
2 Kings 22:2 And he did what was pleasing before the Lord, and he walked in all the ways of his father David. He did not turn aside to the right, or to the left.2 Kings 22:2
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 2 Kings: 6
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 14:2 Now Asa did what was good and pleasing in the sight of his God. And he overturned the altars of foreign worship, and the high places.2 Chronicles 14:2
2 Chronicles 20:32 And he walked in the way of his father, Asa, and he did not decline from it, doing the things that were pleasing before the Lord.2 Chronicles 20:32
2 Chronicles 29:2 And he did what was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, in accord with all that his father David had done.2 Chronicles 29:2
2 Chronicles 29:10 Now therefore, it is pleasing to me that we should enter into a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel. And he will turn away the fury of his indignation from us.2 Chronicles 29:10
2 Chronicles 30:4 And the word was pleasing to the king, and to the entire multitude.2 Chronicles 30:4
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 2 Chronicles: 5
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 2:5 And I said to the king: “If it seems good to the king, and if your servant is pleasing before your face: that you would send me into Judea, to the city of the sepulcher of my father. And I will rebuild it.”Nehemiah 2:5
Nehemiah 2:6 And the king said to me, with the queen who was sitting beside him: “Until what time will your journey be, and when will you return?” And it was pleasing before the countenance of the king, and so he sent me. And I established a time for him.Nehemiah 2:6
Nehemiah 9:24 And the sons arrived and possessed the land. And you humbled the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, before them. And you delivered them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, so that they might do with them just as it was pleasing to them.Nehemiah 9:24
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Nehemiah: 3
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Esther
Esther 2:9 She was pleasing to him, and she found favor in his sight. And he commanded a eunuch to hasten the women’s ornaments, and to deliver her share to her, along with seven of the most beautiful young women of the king’s house, so as to both adorn and honor her and her handmaids.Esther 2:9
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Esther: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 56:13 For you have rescued my soul from death and my feet from slipping, so that I may be pleasing in the sight of God, in the light of the living.Psalm 56:13
Psalm 81:2 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.Psalm 81:2
Psalm 104:34 May my speech be pleasing to him. Truly, I will take delight in the Lord.Psalm 104:34
Psalm 119:108 Make the willing offerings of my mouth well pleasing, Lord, and teach me your judgments.Psalm 119:108
Psalm 133:1 A Canticle in steps: of David. Behold, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to dwell in unity.Psalm 133:1
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Psalm: 5
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 2:10 If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,Proverbs 2:10
Proverbs 5:19 a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.Proverbs 5:19
Proverbs 17:8 The expectation of those who stand ready is a most pleasing jewel. Whichever way he turns himself, he understands prudently.Proverbs 17:8
Proverbs 21:3 To do mercy and judgment is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifices.Proverbs 21:3
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Proverbs: 4
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 9:7 So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.Ecclesiastes 9:7
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Ecclesiastes: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 30:10 They say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to those who behold: “Do not behold for us the things that are right. Speak to us of pleasing things. See errors for us.Isaiah 30:10
Isaiah 49:8 Thus says the Lord: In a pleasing time, I have heeded you, and in the day of salvation, I have assisted you. And I have preserved you, and I have presented you as a covenant of the people, so that you would lift up the earth, and possess the scattered inheritances,Isaiah 49:8
Isaiah 56:7 I will lead them to my holy mountain, and I will gladden them in my house of prayer. Their holocausts and their victims will be pleasing to me upon my altar. For my house will be called the house of prayer for all peoples.Isaiah 56:7
Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together before you; the rams of Nebaioth will minister to you. They will be offered upon my pleasing altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty.Isaiah 60:7
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Isaiah: 4
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 6:20 For what reason are you bringing me frankincense from Sheba, and sweet smelling reeds from a far away land? Your holocausts are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”Jeremiah 6:20
Jeremiah 9:24 But he who glories should glory in this: to know me and to know me well. For I am the Lord, who accomplishes mercy and judgment and justice upon the earth. For these things are pleasing to me, says the Lord.Jeremiah 9:24
Jeremiah 18:4 And the vessel, which he was making with his hands out of clay, broke. And turning away, he made another vessel, for it had been pleasing in his eyes to make it.Jeremiah 18:4
Jeremiah 27:5 I made the earth, and the men and beasts which are upon the face of the earth, by my great strength and by my outstretched arm. And I have given it to whomever it was pleasing in my eyes.Jeremiah 27:5
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Jeremiah: 4
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 33:32 And you are to them like a verse set to music, which is sung with a sweet and pleasing voice. And they hear your words, but they do not do them.Ezekiel 33:32
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Ezekiel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Nahum
Nahum 3:4 Because of the multitude of fornications of the kept woman, beautiful and pleasing and practicing evil deeds, who sold nations by her fornications, and families by her evil doing:Nahum 3:4
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Nahum: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 11:26 Yes, Father, for this was pleasing before you.Matthew 11:26
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Matthew: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Luke
Luke 10:21 In the same hour, he exulted in the Holy Spirit, and he said: “I confess to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and have revealed them to little ones. It is so, Father, because this way was pleasing before you.Luke 10:21
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Luke: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book John
John 8:29 And he who sent me is with me, and he has not abandoned me alone. For I always do what is pleasing to him.”John 8:29
Number of the word / term Pleasing in John: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Romans
Romans 12:1 And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.Romans 12:1
Romans 16:18 For ones such as these do not serve Christ our Lord, but their inner selves, and, through pleasing words and skillful speaking, they seduce the hearts of the innocent.Romans 16:18
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Romans: 2
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Galatians
Galatians 1:10 For am I now persuading men, or God? Or, am I seeking to please men? If I still were pleasing men, then I would not be a servant of Christ.Galatians 1:10
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Galatians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Philippians
Philippians 4:18 But I have everything in abundance. I have been filled up, having received from Epaphroditus the things that you sent; this is an odor of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.Philippians 4:18
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Philippians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Colossians
Colossians 1:10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of God, being pleasing in all things, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,Colossians 1:10
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Colossians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 1 Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians 3:1 Because of this, willing to wait no longer, it was pleasing to us to remain at Athens, alone.1 Thessalonians 3:1
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 1 Thessalonians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 2 Timothy
2 Timothy 2:4 No man, acting as a soldier for God, entangles himself in worldly matters, so that he may be pleasing to him for whom he has proven himself.2 Timothy 2:4
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 2 Timothy: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Titus
Titus 2:9 Exhort servants to be submissive to their masters, in all things pleasing, not contradicting,Titus 2:9
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Titus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Hebrews
Hebrews 10:6 Holocausts for sin were not pleasing to you.Hebrews 10:6
Hebrews 10:8 In the above, by saying, “Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin, you did not want, nor are those things pleasing to you, which are offered according to the law;Hebrews 10:8
Hebrews 12:28 Thus, in receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace. So, through grace, let us be of service, by pleasing God with fear and reverence.Hebrews 12:28
Hebrews 13:21 equip you with all goodness, so that you may do his will. May he accomplish in you whatever is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory forever and ever. Amen.Hebrews 13:21
Number of the word / term Pleasing in Hebrews: 4
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 2 Peter
2 Peter 2:10 even more so, those who walk after the flesh in unclean desires, and who despise proper authority. Boldly pleasing themselves, they do not dread to introduce divisions by blaspheming;2 Peter 2:10
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 2 Peter: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book 1 John
1 John 3:22 and whatever we shall request of him, we shall receive from him. For we keep his commandments, and we do the things that are pleasing in his sight.1 John 3:22
Number of the word / term Pleasing in 1 John: 1
Bible passages with ‘Pleasing’ in the book Revelation
Revelation 17:17 For God has granted to their hearts that they may do to her whatever is pleasing, so that they may give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God may be completed.Revelation 17:17
Number of the word / term ‘Pleasing’ in Revelation: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 80
