Strong’s G700
ἀρέσκω
I please, with the idea of willing service rendered to others; hence almost: I serve.
Occurrences
- Matthew 14:6But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
- Acts 6:5And 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 Timo…
- Romans 8:8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Romans 15:1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- Romans 15:2Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
- Romans 15:3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
- 1 Corinthians 7:32But 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:
- 1 Corinthians 7:33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:34There 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: b…
- 1 Corinthians 10:33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
- Galatians 1:10For 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4But 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 2:15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1Furthermore 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…
- 2 Timothy 2:4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.