PLEASURE

Passages on this topic · 40

• Job 20:12

  “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

• Job 20:13

  though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

• Job 20:14

  yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

• Job 20:15

  He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

• Job 20:16

  He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.

• Job 21:12

  They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

• Job 21:13

  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

• Proverbs 9:17

  “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

• Proverbs 15:21

  Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

• Proverbs 21:17

  He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

• Ecclesiastes 1:17

  I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 2:1

  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 2:2

  I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

• Ecclesiastes 2:3

  I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

• Ecclesiastes 2:4

  I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

• Ecclesiastes 2:5

  I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

• Ecclesiastes 2:7

  I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;

• Ecclesiastes 2:8

  I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men — musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

• Ecclesiastes 2:9

  So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

• Ecclesiastes 2:10

  Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

• Ecclesiastes 2:11

  Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 2:12

  I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

• Ecclesiastes 2:13

  Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

• Isaiah 5:11

  Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

• Isaiah 5:12

  The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

• Isaiah 22:12

  In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

• Isaiah 22:13

  and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

• Isaiah 47:8

  “Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children.’

• Isaiah 47:9

  But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

• Amos 6:1

  Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

• Luke 8:14

  That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

• Romans 1:32

  who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:12

  that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

• 1 Timothy 5:6

  But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

• 2 Timothy 3:4

  traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• Hebrews 11:25

  choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

• Hebrews 11:26

  accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

• 2 Peter 2:13

  receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;