Day 25: Pleasing to God --

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant."

Our Purpose in Life:
to Please the Lord

• 2 Corinthians 5:9
  Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.
   
• Colossians 1:10
  that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
   
• 1 John 3:22
  And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
   
• Romans 12:1
  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
   
• Romans 14:17-18
  for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
   
• Philippians 4:18
  Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.
   
• Hebrews 13:16,21
  ¹⁶ But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  Now may the God of peace make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
   
• Colossians 3:20
  Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
   
• 1 Thessalonians 2:4
  But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts.
   
• Titus 2:9
  Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,
   
• 2 Timothy 2:15
  Be diligent to present yourself approved unto God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
   
• Romans 16:10
  Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
   
• 2 Corinthians 10:18
  For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
   
• Galatians 1:10
  For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
   
• James 1:12
  Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
   
• 2 Corinthians 13:7
  Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified.
   
• Hebrews 12:28
  Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
   
• Romans 12:1
  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
   
• Proverbs 16:7
  When a man’s ways please the LORD,
        He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
   
• 1 Thessalonians 4:1
  Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;
   
• 2 Timothy 2:4
  No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
   
• Hebrews 11:5
  By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
   
• John 8:29
  And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
   
• 2 Timothy 2:15 (CEV)
  Do your best to win God's approval as a worker who doesn't need to be ashamed and who teaches only the true message.