Amusements and Pleasures, Worldly
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Amusements and Pleasures, Worldly’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 38 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
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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.
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Job 21:12 OT
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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Job 21:13 OT
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
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choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
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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.
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Luke 8:14 NT
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.
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Exodus 32:4 OT
He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
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Exodus 32:6 OT
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.
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Exodus 32:19 OT
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.
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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.”
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The lords of the Philistines gathered 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.” When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they…
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Job 21:14 OT
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
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Job 21:15 OT
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
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Isaiah 5:12 OT
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.
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Amos 6:1-6 OT
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! Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then…
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Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
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Job 1:5 OT
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…
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But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the…
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I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.
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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.
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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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Isaiah 47:8 OT
“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 won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’