Well-pleasing

is used in Rom 1:12-2, translated "acceptable" (RV marg., "well-pleasing"); in the following the RV has "well-pleasing," Rom 14:18, 2Co 5:9, Eph 5:10; in Phi 4:18, Col 3:20 (RV and AV); in Tit 2:9, RV, "well-pleasing" (AV, "please ... well"); in Heb 13:21, RV and AV. See ACCEPTABLE.

akin to A, is rendered "to be well-pleasing" in Heb 1:11-6, RV (AV, "please"); in Heb 13:16, "is well pleased."

lit., "good pleasure," is rendered "well-pleasing" in Mat 11:26, Luk 10:21. See DESIRE, PLEASURE, SEEM, WELL PLEASED, WILL.