19 Bible Verses about Pleasure
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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.
At that moment he was inspired with joy, and 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!
"Here is my servant whom I have selected, My beloved, who delights my heart! I will endow him with my Spirit, And he will announce a judgment to the heathen.
He foreordained us to become his sons through Jesus Christ, in fulfilment of his generous purpose,
Charge the rich of this world not to be arrogant, nor to set their hopes on such an uncertain thing as riches, but on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
And what falls among the thorns means those who listen and pass on, and the worries and wealth and pleasures of life stifle them and they yield nothing.
For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.
so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned.
A widow who gives herself up to pleasure is dead while she is still alive.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, caring more for pleasure than for God,
for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,
You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.
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!
From Thematic Bible
Pleasure » What is pleasing to the lord
Children, always obey your parents, for that is commendable in Christians.
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,
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
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
but without faith it is impossible to please him; for whoever would approach God must have faith in his existence and in his willingness to reward those who try to find him.
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
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?'
Topics on Pleasure
Pleasure Seekers
2 Timothy 3:2People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent,
Pleasure, Worldly
Luke 8:14And what falls among the thorns means those who listen and pass on, and the worries and wealth and pleasures of life stifle them and they yield nothing.
Worldly Pleasures, Characteristic Of The Wicked
Ephesians 4:17So 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.
Worldly Pleasures, Leads To
1 Timothy 5:6A widow who gives herself up to pleasure is dead while she is still alive.
Worldly Pleasures, Nature Of
Galatians 5:19The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness,
Related Topics
- Bible, In Christian Living
- Character Of Wicked
- Delight, God Expressing
- Delighting, Right Kinds Of
- Delighting, Wrong Kinds Of
- Fools, Description Of
- God As A Source Of Delight
- God's Salvation Made Known
- God's Things Concealed
- God's Word As A Source Of Delight
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