Pleasure

Whoso <FI>is<Fi> loving mirth <FI>is<Fi> a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys <FI>is<Fi> with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. — read the full passage →

`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.

I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it <FI>is<Fi> vanity. — read the full passage →

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light; — read the full passage →

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

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

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, — read the full passage →

Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way--And he hath lived?

I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it <FI>is<Fi> vanity.

For Jehovah is pleased with His people, He beautifieth the humble with salvation.

Say unto them, I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I delight not in the death of the wicked, But--in the turning of the wicked from his way, And he hath lived, Turn back, turn back, from your evil ways, Yea, why do ye die, O house of Israel?

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently--Who is saying in her heart, `I <FI>am<Fi> , and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.'

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

`And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

For not a God desiring wickedness <FI>art<Fi> Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins; — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest--complete.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

`Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination.

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife--who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour--the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying,

about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

`Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated <FI>with<Fi> burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.

Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased.

Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah. — read the full passage →

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that <FI>is<Fi> towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that <FI>is<Fi> with me;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, — read the full passage →

Bless, O my soul, Jehovah! Jehovah, my God, Thou hast been very great, Honour and majesty Thou hast put on. — read the full passage →

A Secret Treasure of David. Preserve me, O God, for I did trust in Thee. — read the full passage →

For what <FI>is<Fi> his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?

And the drinking <FI>is<Fi> according to law, none is pressing, for so hath the king appointed for every chief one of his house, to do according to the pleasure of man and man.

and Abraham and Sarah <FI>are<Fi> aged, entering into days--the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah;

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her; — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

A fool delighteth not in understanding, But--in uncovering his heart.

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens, Praise ye Him in high places. — read the full passage →

And this <FI>one<Fi> dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness.

and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we <FI>are<Fi> in great distress.

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

The delight of kings <FI>are<Fi> righteous lips, And whoso is speaking uprightly he loveth,

To execute inventions <FI>is<Fi> as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, — read the full passage →