Thematic Bible: Amusements and worldly pleasures
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
For the time you have [already] spent in the past [i.e., as Gentile unbelievers] was long enough to have practiced unrestrained, indecent conduct, improper sexual cravings, riotous living, wild parties, drunken orgies and disgusting idol worship.
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So, I tell you this, and insist [on it] by [the authority of] the Lord: Do not continue to live with worthless thoughts as [unconverted] Gentiles do.
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They have stopped caring [i.e., about morality], so God has abandoned them to lives of unrestrained indecency and to engage in all kinds of [moral] impurity, with a constant desire for more.
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treacherous [i.e., betrayers], reckless, conceited, [and] lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
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For we [Christians] were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various kinds of [evil] desires and [sinful] pleasures. [We used to] live in malice and envy, hating people and being hated by them.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Formed a part of idolatrous worship
[So], do not worship idols as some of them did, as it is written [Ex. 32:6], "The people sat down to feast and drink, then got up and played." [Note: This refers to the Israelites engaging in an orgy of dancing and sex. See Ex. 32:17-19].
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Are transitory
but chose rather to suffer mistreatment with God's people [i.e., the Israelites] than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a brief time.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to greater evil
But when Herod's birthday came, Herodias' daughter [Note: According to Josephus her name was Salome], pleased him by [her sensual] dancing in front of the party guests. [Herod was so pleased with her performance that] he promised, with an oath, to give her whatever she asked for [i.e., with limitations. See Mark 6:23]. Her mother persuaded her to say, "Give me the head of John, the Immerser, here on this [large] platter."
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Disregard of the judgments and works of God
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Punishment of
They suffer wrong themselves for doing wrong to other people. They consider it [especially] pleasurable to carry on their drunken revellings, [even] during the daytime. They become blots and blemishes [i.e., like spoiled food] in your fellowship meal, as they revel in their deceitful behavior.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to rejection of God
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Denounced by God
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Belong to the works of the flesh
Now those things done by the sinful, physical nature [of a person] are evident; they are these: sexual immorality, moral impurity, indecent conduct,
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envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you again, as I have done before, that those people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Renunciation of, exemplified by moses
but chose rather to suffer mistreatment with God's people [i.e., the Israelites] than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a brief time.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » An abuse of riches
Come on now, you rich people, cry and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.
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You people have basked in luxury [here] on earth and lived lives devoted to pleasure. You have fattened yourselves [as sacrificial oxen] for the day of slaughter.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » The wicked seek for happiness in
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Wisdom of abstaining from
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Terminate in sorrow
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Poverty
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Exclude from the kingdom of God
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you again, as I have done before, that those people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Shunned by the primitive saints
For the time you have [already] spent in the past [i.e., as Gentile unbelievers] was long enough to have practiced unrestrained, indecent conduct, improper sexual cravings, riotous living, wild parties, drunken orgies and disgusting idol worship.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
Now, those people you used to run around with cannot understand why you have stopped living such wasteful lives, so they just "badmouth" you.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Choke the word of God in the heart
And those people [represented by the seed] that fell among thorns are the ones who have heard [the word], and as they go about their business, they become choked by worry, by money and by worldly pleasures, and produce no mature crop.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » A proof of spiritual death
But the widow who devotes herself to unrestrained pleasure is [spiritually] dead, even while still living.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Vain
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Indulgence in is » A proof of folly
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