What Does the Bible Say About Sin Is Pleasurable?

Hebrews 11:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

1 John 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

James 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

1 Timothy 4:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. ...

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Luke 23:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Matthew 15:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Matthew 14:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus, and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet. ...

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Isaiah 59:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

27 Bible Verses about Sin Is Pleasurable

Hebrews 11:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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James 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 23:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 15:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 14:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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27 Bible Verses about Sin Is Pleasurable

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Hebrews 11:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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James 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Luke 23:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 15:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 14:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Isaiah 59:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes