Thematic Bible: Amusements and worldly pleasures
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,
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Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,
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they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God ??5 for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.
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For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days 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 to make sport.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Are transitory
ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin,
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to greater evil
However, on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced in public to the delight of Herod; whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she wanted. And she, at the instigation of her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head this moment on a dish."
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Disregard of the judgments and works of God
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Punishment of
done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!
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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 quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,
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envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Renunciation of, exemplified by moses
ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin,
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » An abuse of riches
Come now, you rich men, weep and shriek over your impending miseries!
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You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as 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, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Shunned by the primitive saints
It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Choke the word of God in the heart
As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » A proof of spiritual death
whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Vain
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Indulgence in is » A proof of folly
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