ἀρέσκω [in LXX chiefly for טוֹב ;] 1. to please (Hom., Hdt., al.): with dative of person(s), Mat.14:6, Mrk.6:22, Rom.8:8 15:2, 1Th.2:15 4:1, 1Co.7:32-34 Gal.1:10, 2Ti.2:4; before ἐνώπισν (= Heb. בּעֵנֵי, Bl., § 37, 1; 40, 7), Ac 65. 2. In late Gk., esp. in Inscr., to render service to (see M, Th., ICC, 1 Co., ll with; Cremer, 640 f.); Rom.15:1, 3, 1Co.10:33, 1Th.2:4.† (AS)
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G700 — ἀρέσκω
areskō · to please · Greek
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Matthew 14:6 · ἤρεσενBut the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,Acts 6:5 · ἤρεσενAnd the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,Romans 8:8 · ἀρέσαιfor neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.Romans 15:1 · ἀρέσκειν·And we ought—we who are strong—to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;Romans 15:2 · ἀρεσκέτωfor let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,Romans 15:3 · ἤρεσενfor even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, ‘The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;’1 Corinthians 7:32 · ἀρέσῃAnd I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;1 Corinthians 7:33 · ἀρέσῃand the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.1 Corinthians 7:34 · ἀρέσῃThe wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.1 Corinthians 10:33 · ἀρέσκωas I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many—that they may be saved.Galatians 1:10 · ἀρέσκειν; · ἤρεσκον,for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please—Christ’s servant I should not be.1 Thessalonians 2:4 · ἀρέσκοντεςbut as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,1 Thessalonians 2:15 · ἀρεσκόντωνwho did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,1 Thessalonians 4:1 · ἀρέσκεινAs to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,2 Timothy 2:4 · ἀρέσῃ.no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;