11 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is grief.

He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after worthless pursuits shall have poverty enough.

Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of meat: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What use is it?

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

And it came to pass, as soon as he came near unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount.

Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days later the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent everything, there arose a great famine in that land; and he began to be in want.read more.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!