9 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted. Neither become ye idolaters as some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel. Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and three thousand fell in one day.

But she who is self-indulgent is dead while she lives.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity shall have poverty enough.

I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?

And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. And Moses' anger grew hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided to them his living. And not many days after, the younger son, having gathered all together, journeyed into a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth living recklessly. And when he spent all, a mighty famine developed in that country, and he began to be in want.read more.
And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he longed to fill his belly from the husks that the swine ate, and no man gave to him. But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.