Ephesians 5:10
New International Version
and find out what pleases the Lord.

New Living Translation
Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.

English Standard Version
and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

Berean Literal Bible
discerning what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

King James Bible
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

New King James Version
finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

New American Standard Bible
as you try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

NASB 1995
trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

NASB 1977
trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

Amplified Bible
trying to learn [by experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [and letting your lifestyles be examples of what is most acceptable to Him—your behavior expressing gratitude to God for your salvation].

Christian Standard Bible
testing what is pleasing to the Lord.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
discerning what is pleasing to the Lord.

American Standard Version
proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Distinguish what is pleasing before Our Lord.

Contemporary English Version
as you try to please the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Proving what is well pleasing to God:

English Revised Version
proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Determine which things please the Lord.

Good News Translation
Try to learn what pleases the Lord.

International Standard Version
Determine what pleases the Lord,

Literal Standard Version
proving what is well-pleasing to the LORD;

Majority Standard Bible
Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

New American Bible
Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

NET Bible
trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.

New Heart English Bible
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
Proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

Weymouth New Testament
and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord.

World English Bible
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

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Context
Children of Light
9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. 10Test and prove what pleases the Lord. 11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.…

Cross References
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Colossians 1:10
so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,


Treasury of Scripture

Proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

Proving.

1 Samuel 17:39
And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

Romans 12:1,2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service…

Philippians 1:10
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

acceptable.

Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Proverbs 21:3
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Isaiah 58:5
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

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Ephesians 5
1. After general exhortations to love;
3. to flee sexual immorality;
4. and all uncleanness;
7. not to converse with the wicked;
15. to walk carefully;
18. and to be filled with the Spirit;
22. he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands;
25. and husbands ought to love their wives,
32. even as Christ does his church.














(10) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.--So in Romans 12:2, the "proving what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God," is the fruit of transformation "in the renewing of the mind." "To prove" is to try in each case, by the full light of God, what is accordant to His will; it is a work partly of thought, partly of practical experience; and it always implies a searching examination of heart and action by the touchstone of God's word.

Verse 10. - Proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord. A general rule applicable to the whole walk. To prove is to ascertain by test and experiment. Our whole walk should be directed to finding out what things are pleasing to Christ, rejecting at once everything that is not so, and clinging to all that is. We are not to follow the tradition of our people, and not to take a vague view of duty; we are to prove the matter, to put it to the test. For the supreme practical rule of the Christian's life must be to please Christ.

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Greek
Test and prove
δοκιμάζοντες (dokimazontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1381: From dokimos; to test; by implication, to approve.

what
τί (ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

pleases
εὐάρεστον (euareston)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2101: Acceptable, well-pleasing (especially to God), grateful. From eu and arestos; fully agreeable.

the
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Lord.
Κυρίῳ (Kyriō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.


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