Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.
For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.
Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.
These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.
With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
For it has been the good pleasure of those of Macedonia and Achaia to send a certain amount of money for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.
Yes, it has been their good pleasure; and they are in their debt. For if the Gentiles have had a part in the things of the Spirit which were theirs, it is right for them, in the same way, to give them help in the things of the flesh.
For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.
So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.
In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.
So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.
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The Book of Enoch is ascribed to the great-grandfather of Noah and is included in the cannon of some churches. It describes the fall of the angels (watchers), visions of heaven and hell and the birth of Noah. Quotes from the book of Enoch are found in the New Testament.
The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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