'Pleasure' in the Bible

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem.

Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell;

that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

In whole burnt offerings and'sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure:

Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and'sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law),

But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;