Thematic Bible: Indulgence in
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worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » A characteristic of the wicked
Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
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So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.
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This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,
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Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.
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False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;
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For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
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worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » An abuse of riches
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
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You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
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worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » A proof of folly
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
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worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » A proof of spiritual death
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.
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