OT-POET.filter - geneva pleasures:

geneva@Job:36:11 @ If they obey and serue him, they shal end their dayes in prosperity, & their yeres in pleasures.

geneva@Psalms:16:11 @ Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy (note:)Where God favours there is perfect happiness.(:note) presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:23:6 @ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the (note:)He does not set his happiness in the pleasures of this world, but in the fear and service of God.(:note) house of the LORD for ever.

geneva@Psalms:36:8 @ They shall be abundantly (note:)Only God's children have enough of all things both concerning this life and the life to come.(:note) satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

geneva@Psalms:49:18 @ Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and (note:)The flatterers praise them who live in delight and pleasures.(:note) [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

geneva@Psalms:63:5 @ My soul shall be satisfied as [with] (note:)The remembrance of your favour is more sweet to me than all the pleasures and dainties of the world.(:note) marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:

geneva@Psalms:65:4 @ Blessed is he, whom thou chusest and causest to come to thee: he shall dwell in thy courtes, and we shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thine House, euen of thine holy Temple.

geneva@Proverbs:8:11 @ For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.

geneva@Proverbs:25:16 @ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is (note:)Use moderately the pleasures of this world.(:note) sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

geneva@Proverbs:29:17 @ Correct thy sonne & he will giue thee rest, and will giue pleasures to thy soule.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the (note:)Solomon is here called a preacher, or one who assembles the people, because he teaches the true knowledge of God, and how men ought to pass their life in this transitory world.(:note) Preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. The Argument - Solomon as a preacher and one that desired to instruct all in the way of salvation, describes the deceivable vanities of this world: that man should not be addicted to anything under the sun, but rather inflamed with the desire of the heavenly life: therefore he confutes their opinions, which set their happiness either in knowledge or in pleasures, or in dignity and riches, wishing that man's true happiness consists in that he is united with God and will enjoy his presence: so that all other things must be rejected, save in as much as they further us to attain to this heavenly treasure, which is sure and permanent, and cannot be found in any other save in God alone.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (note:)Solomon makes this discourse with himself, as though he would try whether there was contentment in ease and pleasures.(:note) thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with (note:)Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.(:note) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ And I turned myself to behold (note:)I thought to myself whether it was better to follow wisdom, or my own affections and pleasures, which he calls madness.(:note) wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ For who can eat, or who else can hasten (note:)Meaning, to pleasures.(:note) [to it], more than I?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:16 @ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a (note:)That is, without wisdom and counsel.(:note) child, and thy princes Are given to their lusts and pleasures. eat in the morning!

geneva@Songs:7:6 @ Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!