'Pleasure' in the Bible

"This is My servant whom I have chosen, My dearly loved One in whom My soul takes pleasure. I will put My spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the nations.

for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man, and he protected him. After listening to him he was in great perplexity, and yet he found a pleasure in listening.

"David himself calls Him 'Lord:' how then can He be his son?" And the mass of people found pleasure in listening to Jesus.

"Dismiss your fears, little flock: your Father finds a pleasure in giving you the Kingdom.

This gave them great pleasure, and they agreed to pay him.

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

and whoever in this way devotedly serves Christ, God takes pleasure in him, and men highly commend him.

As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.

For even the Christ did not seek His own pleasure. His principle was, "The reproaches which they addressed to Thee have fallen on me."

She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.

Wise as you yourselves are, you find pleasure in tolerating fools.

In fact I take pleasure in infirmities, in the bearing of insults, in distress, in persecutions, in grievous difficulties--for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

For He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure--

in order that all may come under judgement who have refused to believe the truth and have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,

In whole burnt-offerings and in sin-offerings Thou hast taken no pleasure.

After saying the words I have just quoted, "Sacrifices and offerings or whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings Thou hast not desired or taken pleasure in" --all such being offered in obedience to the Law--

But it is by faith that My righteous servant shall live; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him."

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting with you.

These men--sunken rocks! --are those who share the pleasure of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring only for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the winds; trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead, uprooted;