But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; [namely], Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
And 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 Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell;
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, [which were] meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best [place] of the house of the women.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
For 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.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which [were] with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.
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