19 Bible Verses about Pleasure

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Matthew 11:25-26

At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children. Yes, I thank you, Father, for choosing to have it so.

2 Peter 2:13-14

suffering wrong as the reward for their wrongdoing. They find pleasure in the indulgence of the moment; they are a stain and a disgrace, and they revel in their deceit while they join in your religious meals. They have eyes for nobody but adulterous women??yes insatiable in sin. They lure unsteadfast souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are accursed!

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Pleasure » What is pleasing to the lord

Colossians 1:12-19

and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light. He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son, by whom we have been ransomed from captivity through having our sins forgiven. read more.
He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature, for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities??ll things were created through him and for him. He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all. He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead??hat he might come to stand first in everything. For all the divine fulness chose to dwell in him,

Hebrews 13:12-16

And so Jesus too, in order to purify the people by his blood, suffered death outside the city gate. Let us, therefore, go out to him, outside the camp, sharing the contempt that he endured, for we have no permanent city here on earth, but we are in search of the city that is to come. read more.
In his name let us continually offer praise as our sacrifice to God??he utterance of lips that glorify God's name. But do not forget to be helpful and generous, for that is the kind of sacrifice that pleases God.

Pleasure » Those that please the lord

Pleasure » What the lord has no pleasure in

Hebrews 10:1-9

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer these sacrifices, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sin? They really only serve to remind the people annually of the sins they have committed, read more.
for bulls' and goats' blood is powerless to remove sin. That is why the Christ, when he was coming into the world, said, "You have not wished sacrifice or offering, but you have provided a body for me. You never cared for burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin! So I said, 'See, I have come! as the Book of the Law says of me, O God, to do your will!' " At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"??ll of which the Law prescribes??9 and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place.

Pleasure » Who cannot please God

Hebrews 10:36-38

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised. For "In a very little while He who is to come will come and not delay, And he whom I accept as righteous will find life through his faith. But if a man draws back, my heart can take no pleasure in him."

Pleasure » Who the lord takes pleasure in

Pleasure » Those that love pleasure

the things that are Transient » Power » Pleasure

Luke 12:19-20

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have great wealth stored up for years to come. Now take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself." ' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul will be demanded of you. Then who will have all you have prepared?'

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Ephesians 4:17

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

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