What Does the Bible Say About Self Pleasure?

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Jeremiah 2:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Titus 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

John 6:1-71 ESV / 10 helpful votes

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ...

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ...

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

John 8:44 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

18 Bible Verses about Self Pleasure

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Jeremiah 2:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Titus 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

John 6:1-71 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 8:44 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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18 Bible Verses about Self Pleasure

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2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Jeremiah 2:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Titus 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

John 6:1-71 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 8:44 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes