Thematic Bible: Amusements and worldly pleasures
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.
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This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,
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Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.
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treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God;
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There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Formed a part of idolatrous worship
Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says-'The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.'
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Are transitory
He preferred sharing the hardships of God's People to enjoying the short-lived pleasures of sin.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to greater evil
But, when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before his guests, and so pleased Herod, That he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. Prompted by her mother, the girl said 'Give me here, on 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 themselves, as the penalty for the suffering that they have inflicted. They think that pleasure consists in the self-indulgence of the moment. They are a stain and a disgrace, indulging, as they do, in their wanton revelry, even while joining you at your feasts.
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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
The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,
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Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Renunciation of, exemplified by moses
He preferred sharing the hardships of God's People to enjoying the short-lived pleasures of sin.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » An abuse of riches
Listen to me, you rich men, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming upon you!
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You have lived on earth a life of extravagance and luxury; you have indulged your fancies in a time of bloodshed.
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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
Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Shunned by the primitive saints
Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Choke the word of God in the heart
By that which fell among the brambles are meant those who hear the Message, but who, as they go on their way, are completely choked by this world's cares and wealth and pleasures, and bring nothing to perfection.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » A proof of spiritual death
But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Vain
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Indulgence in is » A proof of folly
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