11 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who 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 idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.read more.
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!