'Pleasures' in the Bible
The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.