11 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons'shall have poverty enough.

Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it?

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of thy'substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.read more.
And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!