Thematic Bible: Amusements and worldly pleasures
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
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Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds,
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and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, greedy for the practice of every kind of impurity.
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treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Formed a part of idolatrous worship
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play."
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Are transitory
choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to greater evil
But when Herod's birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod, so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist."
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Disregard of the judgments and works of God
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Punishment of
suffering wrong for their wrongdoing. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you.
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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 the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,
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envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Renunciation of, exemplified by moses
choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » An abuse of riches
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
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You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a 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, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Shunned by the primitive saints
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they abuse you;
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Choke the word of God in the heart
And the ones that fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » A proof of spiritual death
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Vain
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Indulgence in is » A proof of folly
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