TOPICAL BIBLE
Pleasure
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Job 20:12Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,Job 20:13Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,Job 20:14His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart.Job 20:15Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.Job 20:16Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.Job 21:12They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.Job 21:13They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.Proverbs 9:17‘Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.’Proverbs 15:21Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth his going.Proverbs 21:17Whoso is loving mirth is a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.Ecclesiastes 1:17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, ‘Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;’ and lo, even it is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:2Of laughter I said, ‘Foolish!’ and of mirth, ‘What is this it is doing?’Ecclesiastes 2:3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where is this—the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.Ecclesiastes 2:4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.Ecclesiastes 2:5I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.Ecclesiastes 2:6I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.Ecclesiastes 2:7I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance—herd and flock—above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man—a wife and wives.Ecclesiastes 2:9And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,Ecclesiastes 2:11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!Ecclesiastes 2:12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already—they have done it!Ecclesiastes 2:13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.Isaiah 5:11Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!Isaiah 5:12And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.Isaiah 22:12And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,Isaiah 22:13And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.Isaiah 47:8And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently—Who is saying in her heart, ‘I am, and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.’Isaiah 47:9And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.Amos 6:1Woe to those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.Luke 8:14‘And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.Romans 1:32who the righteous judgment of God having known—that those practising such things are worthy of death—not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.2 Thessalonians 2:12that they may be judged—all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.1 Timothy 5:6and she who is given to luxury, living—hath died;2 Timothy 3:4traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,Titus 3:3for we were once—also we—thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious—hating one another;Hebrews 11:25having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin’s pleasure for a season,Hebrews 11:26greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;2 Peter 2:13about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,
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