'Pleasures' in the Bible

For he has covered his face with his fat,Adding layers of fat to his thighs [giving himself up to pleasures],

You will show me the path of life;In Your presence is fullness of joy;In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.

“Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden];And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

He who is satisfied loathes honey,But to the hungry soul any bitter thing is sweet.

Then I saw that [even secular] wisdom [that brings sorrow] is better than [the pleasures of] folly and self-indulgence as light excels darkness.

Remember [thoughtfully] also your Creator in the days of your youth [for you are not your own, but His], before the evil days come or the years draw near when you will say [of physical pleasures], “I have no enjoyment and delight in them”;

“Now, then, hear this, you who live a luxuriant life,You who dwell safely and securely,Who say in your heart (mind),‘I am [the queen], and there is no one besides me.I shall not sit as a widow,Nor know the loss of children.’

The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, but as they go on their way they are suffocated with the anxieties and riches and pleasures of this life, and they bring no fruit to maturity.

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of [sensual] pleasure rather than lovers of God,

For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

You ask [God for something] and do not receive it, because you ask with wrong motives [out of selfishness or with an unrighteous agenda], so that [when you get what you want] you may spend it on your [hedonistic] desires.

On the earth you have lived luxuriously and abandoned yourselves to soft living and led a life of wanton pleasure [self-indulgence, self-gratification]; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.