Topic
Pleasure
58 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Luke 8:14ISBE · Nave WORLDLY
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
- Romans 1:32ISBE · Nave WORLDLY
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:12ISBE · Nave WORLDLY
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
- 1 Timothy 5:6ISBE · Nave WORLDLY
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
- Titus 3:3ISBE · Nave WORLDLY
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- 2 Peter 2:13ISBE · Nave WORLDLY
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
- Deuteronomy 23:24ISBE
¶ When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
- Ezra 10:11ISBE
Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
- Nehemiah 9:37ISBE
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
- Esther 1:8ISBE
And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.
- Job 20:12–16Nave WORLDLY
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. He hath swallowed down riches,…
- Job 21:12Nave WORLDLY
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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- Job 21:13 Nave WORLDLY
- Job 21:21 ISBE
- Job 22:3 ISBE
- Psalms 51:18 ISBE
- Psalms 103:21 ISBE
- Psalms 105:22 ISBE
- Psalms 111:2 ISBE
- Proverbs 9:17 Nave WORLDLY
- Proverbs 15:21 Nave WORLDLY
- Proverbs 21:17 Nave WORLDLY
- Ecclesiastes 1:17 Nave WORLDLY
- Ecclesiastes 2:1–13 Nave WORLDLY
- Ecclesiastes 5:4 ISBE
- Ecclesiastes 12:1 ISBE
- Isaiah 5:11 Nave WORLDLY
- Isaiah 5:12 Nave WORLDLY
- Isaiah 22:12 Nave WORLDLY
- Isaiah 22:13 Nave WORLDLY
- Isaiah 44:28 ISBE
- Isaiah 46:10 ISBE
- Isaiah 47:8 Nave WORLDLY
- Isaiah 47:9 Nave WORLDLY
- Isaiah 48:14 ISBE
- Isaiah 53:10 ISBE
- Jeremiah 34:16 ISBE
- Amos 6:1 Nave WORLDLY
- 2 Maccabees 2:27 ISBE
- Luke 2:14 ISBE
- Luke 12:32 ISBE
- Acts 24:27 ISBE
- Acts 25:9 ISBE
- Romans 10:1 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 12:10 ISBE
- Ephesians 1:5 ISBE
- Ephesians 1:9 ISBE
- Philippians 2:13 ISBE
- 2 Thessalonians 1:11 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 3:4 Nave WORLDLY
- Hebrews 10:6 ISBE
- Hebrews 10:8 ISBE
- Hebrews 10:38 ISBE
- Hebrews 11:25 Nave WORLDLY
- Hebrews 11:26 Nave WORLDLY
- Hebrews 12:10 ISBE
- James 5:5 ISBE
- Revelation 4:11 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 41 references
plezh'-ur (chephets, ratson; eudokia, hedone: "Pleasure" is the translation of various Hebrew words, chiefly of chephets, "inclination," hence, "pleasure," "delight" (Job 21:21, "What pleasure hath he in his house?" the American Standard Revised Version "what careth he for"; Job 22:3, "Is it any pleasure to the Almighty?"; Ps 111:2; Ec 5:4; 12:1; in Isa 44:28; 46:10; 48:14; 53:10, it has the sense of will or purpose, "He shall perform all my pleasure," etc.); of ratson, "delight," "acceptance," "good will" (Ezr 10:11; Ne 9:37; Es 1:8; Ps 51:18; 103:21, etc.); nephesh, "soul," "desire" is translated "pleasure" (De 23:24; Ps 105:22; Jer 34:16).
In the New Testament "pleasure" is the translation of eudokia, "good thought or will," "good pleasure" (Lu 2:14 the Revised Version margin; Eph 1:5,9; Php 2:13; 2Th 1:11 the Revised Version (British and American) "every desire of goodness," margin "Greek: `good pleasure of goodness.' Compare Ro 10:1").
"To take pleasure or to have pleasure" is eudokeo (2Co 12:10; 2Th 2:12; Heb 10:6,8,38); eudokeo is once translated "good pleasure" (Lu 12:32, "It is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom"); the neuter participle of dokeo, "to think," etc.--meaning "it seems good to me"--to dokoun, is translated "pleasure" (Heb 12:10, "after their pleasure," the Revised Version (British and American) "as seemed good to them"); hedone, "sweetness," "pleasure," occurs in Lu 8:14; Tit 3:3; 2Pe 2:13 (referring to the lower pleasures of life); thelema, "wish," "will" (Re 4:11, the Revised Version (British and American) "because of thy will"); charis, "favor" (Ac 24:27; 25:9, the Revised Version (British and American) "favor"); spatalao "to live voluptuously" (1Ti 5:6, the Revised Version (British and American) "she that giveth herself to pleasure"); suneudokeo, "to think well with," "to take pleasure with others" (Ro 1:32, the Revised Version (British and American) "consent with"); truphao, "to live luxuriously" (Jas 5:5, the Revised Version (British and American) "lived delicately").
The verb "to pleasure" occurs in 2 Macc 2:27 as the translation of eucharistia, the Revised Version (British and American) "gratitude"; 12:11, ophelesein, the Revised Version (British and American) "to help."
W. L. Walker
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Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.