2 Corinthians 5:9

2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

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Judges 13:16
Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.

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1 Samuel 3:18
Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

2 Samuel 15:26
but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”

Acts 7:59
They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Acts 7:60
He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

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Luke 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

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1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

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1 Corinthians 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.

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1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

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2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

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Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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Matthew 25:23
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

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Hebrews 4:9
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

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Hebrews 4:11
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

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1 Corinthians 16:16
that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,

1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

1 Timothy 4:10
For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

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Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 11:14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

Hebrews 11:15
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

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