Pleasant is a beautiful word.
Its rare usage contributes to its warmth. However, its rare usage also causes an untrusting attitude, as though the hearer is unsure of what the definition declares.
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Psalm 16:6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.
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Psalm 133:1 How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
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Psalm 135:3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
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Psalm 147:1 Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!
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Proverbs 2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace.
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Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
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Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
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Proverbs 27:9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.
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Isaiah 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines
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Hebrews 12:11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
2 comments:
yeah.
sometimes life isn't pleasant either. like dark and damp and spiders.
but sometimes it turns out ok eh?
I need an NIV Bible. The longer I don't have one, the more I want one. I like the way it words things.
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