Bible Verses About Pleasure
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for pleasure, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,884 votes, led by Proverbs 21:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pleasure
Proverbs 21:17182 votes
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Psalms 16:11136 votes
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
2 Timothy 2:22120 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Corinthians 10:1395 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Luke 8:1479 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:18-2079 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Ecclesiastes 2:1-1176 votes
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Galatians 5:19-2176 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Hebrews 13:462 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Timothy 5:658 votes
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
1 Timothy 6:1747 votes
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Romans 13:12-1445 votes
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
1 Thessalonians 4:445 votes
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
Colossians 3:537 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Corinthians 6:1834 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 10:732 votes
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.
Romans 12:130 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 John 1:929 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Timothy 3:428 votes
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Galatians 2:2026 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Ephesians 5:324 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
2 Timothy 3:1-524 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
1 Peter 4:3-422 votes
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Ecclesiastes 2:120 votes
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Psalms 149:419 votes
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
What does the Bible say about pleasure?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 21:17 on the subject of pleasure. Across 1,884 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 16:11, 2 Timothy 2:22, 1 Corinthians 10:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.