11 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play." We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags

I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?"

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags

And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.' And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.read more.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything. "But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!