AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES

Belong to the works of the flesh

Ga 5:19,21

Are transitory

Job 21:12,13; Heb 11:25

Vain

Ec 2:11

Choke the word of God in the heart

Lu 8:14

Formed a part of idolatrous worship

Ex 32:4,6,19; with 1Co 10:7; Jud 16:23-25

Lead to rejection of God

Job 21:14,15

Poverty

Pr 21:17

Disregard of the judgments and works of God

Isa 5:12; Am 6:1-6

Terminate in sorrow

Pr 14:13

Lead to greater evil

Job 1:5; Mt 14:6-8

The wicked seek for happiness in

Ec 2:1,8

Indulgence in is

A proof of folly

Ec 7:4

A characteristic of the wicked

Isa 47:8; Eph 4:17,19; 2Ti 3:4; Tit 3:3; 1Pe 4:3

A proof of spiritual death

1Ti 5:6

An abuse of riches

Jas 5:1,5

Wisdom of abstaining from

Ec 7:2,3

Shunned by the primitive saints

1Pe 4:3

Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked

1Pe 4:4

Denounced by God

Isa 5:11,12

Exclude from the kingdom of God

Ga 5:21

Punishment of

Ec 11:9; 2Pe 2:13

Renunciation of, exemplified by Moses

Heb 11:25

See DANCING

See GAMES

See PLEASURE, WORLDLY

See WORLDLINESS