Haller's Concordance: PLEASE
- I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof. Gen. 19:8
- And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee. Gen. 20:15
- And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor. Gen. 23:8
- Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left. Gen. 24:49
- May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir. Gen. 33:14
- He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me. Ex. 33:19
- Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what thou seest has happened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies, having a sorrowful heart? Lev. 10:19
- And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence. Num. 23:27
- But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her. Dt. 21:14
- He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and shall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble. Dt. 23:16
- I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field. Ruth 4:4
- And they said: In the morning we will come out to you: and you shall do what you please with us. 1 Ki. 11:10
- Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do for him whatsoever shall please thee, and all that thou shalt ask of me, thou shalt obtain. 2 Ki. 19:38
- And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth, the Jezrahelite, and said to him: Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please thee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will not give thee my vineyard. 3 Ki. 21:6
- And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds; for the Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. And Jehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or flee out of the city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel. 4 Ki. 9:15
- Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the house of your master. 4 Ki. 10:3
- And he said to all the assembly of Israel: If it please you; and if the words which I speak come from the Lord our God, let us send to the rest of our brethren into all the countries of Israel, and to the priests, and the Levites, that dwell in the suburbs of the cities, to gather themselves to us, 1 Par. 13:2
- And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever. 2 Par. 10:7
- If it please thee therefore, let us go before, and let the family follow softly after us, together with thy wife, and with the beasts. Tob. 11:3
- Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord in truth, and seek to do the things that please him: Tob. 14:10
- Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall please thee, Jud. 3:6
- And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us. Jud. 6:18
- All that shall be good and best before his eyes, I will do. And whatsoever shall please him, that shall be best to me all the days of my life. Jud. 12:14
- If it please thee, let an edict go out from thy presence, and let it be written according to the law of the Persians and of the Medes, which must not be altered, that Vasthi come in no more to the king, but another, that is better than her, be made queen in her place. Esther 1:19
- And whosoever among them all shall please the king's eyes, let her be queen instead of Vasthi. The word pleased the king: and he commanded it should be done as they had suggested. Esther 2:4
- If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers. Esther 3:9
- But she answered: If it please the king, I beseech thee to come to me this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared. Esther 5:4
- If I have found favour in the king's sight, and if it please the king to give me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition: let the king and Aman come to the banquet which I have prepared them, and to morrow I will open my mind to the king. Esther 5:8
- Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request. Esther 7:3
- And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that the former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king's provinces, may be reversed by new letters. Esther 8:5
- And she answered: If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews, to do to morrow in Susan as they have done to day, and that the ten sons of Aman may be hanged upon gibbets. Esther 9:13
- His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web. Job 8:14
- Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings? Job 13:9
- Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words. Job 21:3
- For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him. Job 34:9
- For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin? Job 35:3
- And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my Redeemer. Ps. 19:14
- As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled. Ps. 35:14
- They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them. Ps. 53:5
- Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living. Ps. 56:13
- And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs. Ps. 69:31
- I will please the Lord in the land of the living. Ps. 116:9
- If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: Pr. 2:10
- Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee. Pr. 4:14
- Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal faithfully, please him. Pr. 12:22
- When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace. Pr. 16:7
- Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God. Eccl. 9:7
- ¤ Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not: Eccl. 12:1
- I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please. Cant. 2:7
- I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please. Cant. 3:5
- I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please. Cant. 8:4
- Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in multitudes of nations: Wis. 6:3
- And so the ways of them that are upon earth may be corrected, and men may learn the things that please thee? Wis. 9:18
- For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner. Wis. 14:19
- Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as please them. Sir. 8:20
- Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that even to hell the wicked shall not please. Sir. 9:17
- A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent man shall please the great ones. Sir. 20:29
- For if it shall please the great Lord, he will fill him with the spirit of understanding: Sir. 39:8
- For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion. Sir. 41:20
- So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it. Isa. 55:11
- For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall keep my sabbaths, and shall choose the things that please me, and shall hold fast my covenant: Isa. 56:4
- I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations. Isa. 56:7
- But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord. Jer. 9:24
- Now then behold I have loosed thee this day from the chains which were upon thy hands: if it please thee to come with me to Babylon, come: and I will set my eyes upon thee: but if it do not please thee to come with me to Babylon, stay here: behold all the land is before thee, as thou shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to go, thither go. Jer. 40:4
- And come not with me: but dwell with Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Juda: dwell therefore with him in the midst of the people: or whithersoever it shall please thee to go, go. And the general of the army gave him victuals and presents, and let him go. Jer. 40:5
- In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me; all of them I say, in the land in which they shall please me, and there will I require your firstfruits, and the chief of your tithes with all your sanctifications. Ezec. 20:40
- As in holocausts of rams, and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight this day, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in thee. Dan. A:17
- This is the decree by the sentence of the watchers, and the word and demand of the holy ones: till the living know, that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men: and he will give it to whomsoever it shall please him, and he will appoint the basest man over it. Dan. 4:17
- And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he will set over it whomsoever it shall please him. Dan. 5:21
- They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord. Osee 9:4
- You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the God of judgment? Mal. 2:17
- And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient years. Mal. 3:4
- All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him. Mt. 11:27
- And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone. For I do always the things that please him. Jn. 8:29
- And they who are in the flesh cannot please God. Rom. 8:8
- ¤ Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. Rom. 15:1
- Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to edification. Rom. 15:2
- For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. Rom. 15:3
- But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God. 1 Cor. 7:32
- But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided. 1 Cor. 7:33
- And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband. 1 Cor. 7:34
- As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved. 1 Cor. 10:33
- On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made. 1 Cor. 16:2
- And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him. 2 Cor. 5:9
- For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful. 2 Cor. 12:10
- For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Gal. 1:10
- For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ. Gal. 6:12
- Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; 1 Th. 2:15
- ¤ For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more. 1 Th. 4:1
- No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses: that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself. 2 Tim. 2:4
- Holocausts for sin did not please thee. Heb. 10:6
- But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. Heb. 10:38
- But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him. Heb. 11:6
- woe be to thee thou wretch, because thou art like to her, and hast adorned thy daughters in fornication, to please & glorie in thy louers, which haue desired alwayes to fornicate with thee. 4 Esd. 15:47