What Pleases God?

Taken from the Scriptures--search pleases, Lord

• 3 Nephi 11:7

  Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name—hear ye him.

• Colossians 1:9-10

  9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the ^aknowledge of his ^bwill in all wisdom and spiritual ^cunderstanding;

• That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

• Colossians 3:20

  Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Proverbs 16:7

• When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

• Doctrine and Covenants 88:1-2

• 1Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you who have assembled yourselves together to receive his will concerning you:

  Behold, this is pleasing unto your Lord, and the angels rejoice over you; the alms of your prayers have come up into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth, and are recorded in the book of the names of the sanctified, even them of the celestial world.

• Elect — The Guide to the Scriptures

  The elect are those who love God with all their hearts and live lives that are pleasing to him. Those who live such lives of discipleship will one day be selected by the Lord to be among his chosen children.

• Thankful, Thanks, Thanksgiving — The Guide to the Scriptures

  Gratitude for blessings received from God. Expressing gratitude is pleasing to God, and true worship includes thanking him. We should give thanks to the Lord for all things.

• 1 John 3:22

  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

• Doctrine and Covenants 59:18

• 18Yea, all things which come of the earth, in the season thereof, are made for the ^abenefit and the ^buse of man, both to please the eye and to ^cgladden the heart; UAdd a Note

  19Yea, for ^afood and for raiment, for taste and for smell, to ^bstrengthen the body and to enliven the soul.

  20And it pleaseth God that he hath given all these things unto man;

• Jacob 2:7

  And also it grieveth me that I must use so much boldness of speech concerning you, before your wives and your children, many of whose feelings are exceedingly tender and chaste and delicate before God, which thing is pleasing unto God;

Search Delight

• Proverbs 11:20

  They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

• Proverbs 15:8

  The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

• Psalms 1:2

  But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

• Psalms 40:8

  I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

• Jacob 2:28

  For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women.

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

• Doctrine and Covenants 76:5

  For thus saith the Lord—I, the Lord, am merciful and gracious unto those who fear me, and delight to honor those who serve me in righteousness and in truth unto the end.

• Isaiah 58:13-14

  ¶If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the ^ahigh places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

• Doctrine and Covenants 41:1

  Hearken and hear, O ye my people, saith the Lord and your God, ye whom I delight to bless with the greatest of all blessings, ye that hear me;
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• Psalms 37:23

  The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

• Doctrine and Covenants 25:12

  For my soul delighteth in the song of the heart; yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me, and it shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads

Search my joy

• Philippians 2:2

  Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

• 3 Nephi 27:30

  And now, behold, my joy is great, even unto fulness, because of you, and also this generation; yea, and even the Father rejoiceth, and also all the holy angels, because of you and this generation; for none of them are lost.

Joy of the Lord

• Zephaniah 3:17

  The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

• Doctrine and Covenants 51:19

  And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life

Search Well Pleased

• Doctrine and Covenants 38:10

  Verily I say unto you, ye are clean, but not all; and there is none else with whom I am well pleased;

• Hebrews 13:16

  But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.