Pleasure

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — read the full passage →

And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. — read the full passage →

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

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

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

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

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things. — read the full passage →

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her: — read the full passage →

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, — read the full passage →