Thematic Bible: Amusements and worldly pleasures
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.
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This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;
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These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.
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They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God.
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For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Formed a part of idolatrous worship
And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.
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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 pleasures of sin for a season.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to greater evil
But when Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company, and so pleased Herod that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked for. So, prompted by her mother, the girl said, "Give me at once, upon a dish, 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 as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting 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 works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,
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envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall 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 pleasures of sin for a season.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » An abuse of riches
Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you!
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You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for 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, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins 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 life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Choke the word of God in the heart
"And that which fell upon thorns is those who have heard, but as they go on their way of word is choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life; so they bring no fruit of perfection.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » A proof of spiritual death
But she who lives in wantonness is dead even while she still 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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