11 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

Even in laughter, the scorner has pain in his heart, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Now these things became types of us, that we should not lust after evil things as they 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 dead: in one day, twenty-three thousand.

but she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

He that tills his land shall be filled with bread, but he that follows after vain persons shall be filled with poverty.

Do not be among those who are drunk with wine; nor among gluttonous eaters of food; for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cause them to wear rags.

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

for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cause them to wear rags.

And it came to pass as soon as he came near unto the camp and he saw the calf and the dances, anger caused Moses to wax hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mount.

Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of the estate that falls 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 wasted his estate with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.read more.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he longed to fill his belly with the husks that the swine ate, but no one gave them unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and I perish here with hunger!