Bible Verses about 'Pleasure'

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• When you make a promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him.
  Ecclesiastes 5:4promisesreliabilityobedience
• I don’t want you to die, says the Sovereign Lord. Turn back and live!
  Ezekiel 18:32conversiondeatheternal life
• For the Lord delights in his people;
  he crowns the humble with victory.
  Psalm 149:4humilityjoyblessing
• So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.
  Luke 12:32fearFatherkingdom
• Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign Lord. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.
  Ezekiel 18:23conversionlifedeath
• Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, “Life is not pleasant anymore.”
  Ecclesiastes 12:1creationlifejoy
• Fools have no interest in understanding;
  they only want to air their own opinions.
  Proverbs 18:2speakingwisdomselfishness
• That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10joystrengthpersecution
• The father of godly children has cause for joy.
  What a pleasure to have children who are wise.
  Proverbs 23:24joywisdomfamily
• You will show me the way of life,
  granting me the joy of your presence
  and the pleasures of living with you forever.
  Psalm 16:11joylifenearness
• Keep the Sabbath day holy.
  Don’t pursue your own interests on that day,
  but enjoy the Sabbath
  and speak of it with delight as the Lord’s holy day.
  Honor the Sabbath in everything you do on that day,
  and don’t follow your own desires or talk idly.
  Then the Lord will be your delight.
  I will give you great honor
  and satisfy you with the inheritance I promised to your ancestor Jacob.
  I, the Lord, have spoken!
  Isaiah 58:13-14sabbath
• For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.
  1 John 2:16desiresaddictionpride
• So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.
  Ecclesiastes 3:12-13joylifefood
• For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God.
  Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation
• When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
  Galatians 5:19-21bodysinsexuality