Thematic Bible: Amusements and worldly pleasures
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.
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This I say therefore, and conjure you by the Lord not to live for the future as other Gentiles do, in the vanity of their minds,
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who without remorse, have abandon'd themselves to brutality, in gratifying every lewd unnatural passion.
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cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:
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for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Formed a part of idolatrous worship
be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Are transitory
chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to greater evil
but when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in publick, and made such an impression upon Herod, that he promised her upon oath, to give whatever she should ask; who being before instructed by her mother, pray, said she, order John Baptist's head to be brought here in a charger.
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Disregard of the judgments and works of God
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Punishment of
they place their felicity in daily pleasure: they are a vile scandal to religion: when they are present at your love-feasts they indulge their luxury:
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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 effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,
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drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Renunciation of, exemplified by moses
chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » An abuse of riches
As for you that are rich: weep, and lament the miserys that are falling upon you.
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you have liv'd on the earth in voluptuousness and luxury: you have indulg'd your selves as in a day of sacrifice:
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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
drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Shunned by the primitive saints
for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
As they think it strange, that you don't concur in the same profusion of luxury, they traduce you.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Choke the word of God in the heart
the ground over-run with thorns denotes such as have embraced the doctrine, but are so immerst in the business, enjoyments, and pleasures of life, as not to improve it to any real advantage.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » A proof of spiritual death
the widow of pleasure is dead tho' 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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