11 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

Even in laughter, a heart may be sad, and the end of joy [may be] grief.

A man of want [is] he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

Now these [things] happened [as] examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil [things], just as those also desired [them], and not become idolaters, as some of them [did], just as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play," nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day,

But the one who lives for sensual pleasure is dead [even though she] lives.

He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty [of] poverty.

Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of {their meat}. For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and [with] rags, drowsiness will clothe them

I said of laughter, "[It is] folly!" and of pleasure, "{What does it accomplish?}"

For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and [with] rags, drowsiness will clothe them

{And} as he came near to the camp, he saw the bull calf and dancing, and {Moses became angry}, and he threw the tablets from his hand, and he broke them under the mountain.

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

And the younger of them said to [his] father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that is coming to [me].' So he divided [his] assets between them. And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything [and] went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth [by] living wastefully. And [after] he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.read more.
And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs. And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving [anything] to him. "But [when he] came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have an abundance {of food}, and I am dying here from hunger!