Thematic Bible: Amusements and worldly pleasures
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Characteristic of » The wicked
For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.
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Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,
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Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy.
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treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,
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For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Formed a part of idolatrous worship
And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Are transitory
having determined to endure ill-treatment along with the people of God rather than enjoy 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 all the company, and so pleased Herod that with an oath he promised to give her whatever she asked. So she, instigated by her mother, 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
being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting 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 you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;
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hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Renunciation of, exemplified by moses
having determined to endure ill-treatment along with the people of God rather than enjoy the short-lived pleasures of sin;
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » An abuse of riches
Come, you rich men, weep aloud and howl for your sorrows which will soon be upon you.
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Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.
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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
hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Shunned by the primitive saints
For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
At this they are astonished--that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » Choke the word of God in the heart
That which fell among the thorns means those who have heard, but as they go on their way, the Message is stifled by the anxieties, wealth and gaieties of time, and they yield nothing in perfection.
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Amusements and worldly pleasures » A proof of spiritual death
but a pleasure-loving widow is dead even while 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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