"Well done, thou good and faithful servant."
"do business"
not wasting talents w/which you were "endowed
by your Creator"
(division of labor, members of body) guided by an Invisible
Hand
Our Purpose in Life:
to Please the Lord
- 2
Corinthians 5:9
Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing
to Him.
- Colossians
1:10
that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being
fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
- 1
John 3:22
And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments
and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
- Romans
12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is
your reasonable service.
- Romans
14:17-18
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and
peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For he who serves
Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
- Philippians
4:18
Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus
the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice,
well pleasing to God.
- Hebrews
13:16,21
16 But do not forget to do
good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Now may the God of peace make you complete in every good work to do His
will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through
Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Colossians
3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing
to the Lord.
- 1
Thessalonians 2:4
But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so
we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts.
- Titus
2:9
Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing
in all things, not answering back,
- 2
Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved unto God, a worker who does
not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
- Romans
16:10
Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the
household of Aristobulus.
- 2
Corinthians 10:18
For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord
commends.
- Galatians
1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if
I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
- James
1:12
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved,
he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who
love Him.
- 2
Corinthians 13:7
Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear
approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may
seem disqualified.
- Hebrews 12:28
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken,
let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with
reverence and godly fear.
- Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is
your reasonable service.
- Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please the LORD,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace
with him.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should
abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and
to please God;
- 2 Timothy 2:4
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this
life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
- Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was
not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had
this testimony, that he pleased God.
- John 8:29
And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I
always do those things that please Him.”
- 2 Timothy 2:15 (CEV)
Do your best to win God's approval as a worker who doesn't need to be
ashamed and who teaches only the true message.
