Thematic Bible: Indulgence in
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worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » A 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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worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » 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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worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » A proof of folly
worldly Amusements and pleasures » Indulgence in » A proof of spiritual death
whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.
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