Thematic Bible: Amusements and worldly pleasures
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
For the time that is past is enough for you to have accomplished what the heathen like to do, leading lives that are steeped in sensuality, lustful desires, drunkenness, carousing, revelry, dissipation, and idolatry that leads to lawlessness,
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So I mean this and now testify to it in the name of the Lord: You must now stop living as the heathen usually do, in the frivolity of their minds,
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for in their recklessness they have abandoned themselves to sensuality which leads to excessive practices of all sorts of immorality.
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treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God,
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For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Formed a part of idolatrous worship
Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Are transitory
because he preferred to suffer hardships with the people of God than to have the passing enjoyment that results from sin,
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to greater evil
But when Herod's birthday came, Herodias' daughter danced before the guests. Herod was fascinated by her, and so passionately promised to give her anything she might ask for. And she, prompted by her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head right here on a platter."
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Disregard of the judgments and works of God
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Punishment of
They think their daily luxurious living real pleasure; they are spots and blots, deceitfully living in luxurious pleasure while they continue their religious 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 practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
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envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I now warn you, as I have done before, that those who practice such things shall not be heirs of the kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Renunciation of, exemplified by moses
because he preferred to suffer hardships with the people of God than to have the passing enjoyment that results from sin,
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » An abuse of riches
Come now, you rich people, weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are sure to overtake you.
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Here on earth you have lived in luxury and self-indulgence; you have fattened your hearts 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, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I now warn you, as I have done before, that those who practice such things shall not be heirs of the kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Shunned by the primitive saints
For the time that is past is enough for you to have accomplished what the heathen like to do, leading lives that are steeped in sensuality, lustful desires, drunkenness, carousing, revelry, dissipation, and idolatry that leads to lawlessness,
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
They are astonished that you are not still rushing hand in hand with them into the same excesses of profligate living, and they abuse you for it;
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Choke the word of God in the heart
And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » A proof of spiritual death
while a widow who gives herself up to luxury is really dead though still alive.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Vain
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Indulgence in is » A proof of folly
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