Amusements and Worldly Pleasures
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Amusements and Worldly Pleasures’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 25–38 of 38 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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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,
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They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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Titus 3:3 NT
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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1 Peter 4:3 NT
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.
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But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
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James 5:1 NT
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
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James 5:5 NT
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
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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.
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Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
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1 Peter 4:4 NT
They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.
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Isaiah 5:11 OT
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!
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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.
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2 Peter 2:13 NT
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;