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G700

ἀρέσκω

areskō

Verb · Probably from αἴρω (G142) (through the idea of exciting emotion)

Probably from G142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by implication, to seek to be so):—please.

Outline

  1. to please
  2. to strive to please
    1. to accommodate one's self to the opinions desires and interests of others

Usages

Matthew 14:6

But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

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Mark 6:22

And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

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Acts 6:5

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:

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Romans 8:8

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

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Romans 15:1

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Brotherhood

Leviticus 19:18 Psalms 133:1 Proverbs 17:17 Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Tobit 12:9 Ecclesiasticus 3:30 Ecclesiasticus 4:31 Ecclesiasticus 6:14 Ecclesiasticus 29:10 Ecclesiasticus 29:20 Matthew 18:15 Matthew 22:39 Luke 17:3 Luke 22:32 John 13:34-35 John 15:13 Acts 20:35 Romans 12:10 1 Corinthians 14:20 Galatians 6:10 Ephesians 4:32 1 Thessalonians 4:9 1 Timothy 5:1 Hebrews 13:1 1 Peter 2:17 1 Peter 3:8 1 Peter 4:8 1 John 2:9 1 John 3:14 1 John 3:15 1 John 3:17

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Romans 15:2

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

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Romans 15:3

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

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1 Corinthians 7:32

But 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:

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1 Corinthians 7:33

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

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1 Corinthians 7:34

There 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: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

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1 Corinthians 10:33

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

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Galatians 1:10

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.

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1 Thessalonians 2:4

But 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.

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1 Thessalonians 2:15

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

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1 Thessalonians 4:1

Furthermore 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 so ye would abound more and more.

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2 Timothy 2:4

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

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