AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES

Passages on this topic · 47

• Exodus 32:4

  He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 32:6

  They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

• Exodus 32:19

  As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

• Judges 16:23

  The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”

• Judges 16:24

  When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

• Judges 16:25

  When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

• Job 1:5

  It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

• Job 21:12

  They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

• Job 21:13

  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

• Job 21:14

  They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

• Job 21:15

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Proverbs 14:13

  Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

• Proverbs 21:17

  He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

• Ecclesiastes 2:1

  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 2:8

  I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men — musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

• Ecclesiastes 2:11

  Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 7:2

  It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

• Ecclesiastes 7:3

  Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

• Ecclesiastes 7:4

  The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

• Ecclesiastes 11:9

  Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

• Isaiah 5:11

  Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

• Isaiah 5:12

  The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

• Isaiah 47:8

  “Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children.’

• Amos 6:1

  Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

• Amos 6:2

  Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?

• Amos 6:3

  Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

• Amos 6:4

  Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;

• Amos 6:5

  who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

• Amos 6:6

  who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

• Matthew 14:6

  But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

• Matthew 14:7

  Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

• Matthew 14:8

  She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”

• Luke 8:14

  That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

• 1 Corinthians 10:7

  Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

• Galatians 5:21

  envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Ephesians 4:17

  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

• Ephesians 4:19

  who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

• 1 Timothy 5:6

  But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

• 2 Timothy 3:4

  traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• Hebrews 11:25

  choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

• James 5:1

  Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

• James 5:5

  You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

• 1 Peter 4:3

  For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

• 1 Peter 4:4

  They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

• 2 Peter 2:13

  receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;