“pleasures” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word pleasures appears 8 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 8 matching verses are shown below.
- 2 Paralipomenon 10:10 But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.
- Psalms 138:11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
- Ecclesiasticus 27:14 The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin.
- Ezechiel 28:13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.
- Luke 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they who have heard and, going their way, are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life and yield no fruit.
- 1 Timothy 5:6 For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.
- 2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than of God:
- Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.