11 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

The heart is sorrowful even in laughter; and the end of mirth is heaviness.

He that hath pleasure in banquets, shall be a poor man; Whoso delighteth in wine and delicates, shall not be rich.

These are examples to us that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted. Neither be ye worshippers of images as were some of them according as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up again to play." Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed fornication, and were destroyed - in one day, twenty three thousand.

but she that liveth in pleasure, is dead even yet alive.

He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, shall have poverty enough.

Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh; for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.

insomuch that I said unto laughter, "Thou art mad," and to mirth, "What doest thou?"

for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.

And as soon as he came nigh unto the host and saw the calf and the dancing, his wrath waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hand, and brake them even at the hill foot.

Wherefore my dear beloved, flee from worshipping of idols.

and the younger of them said to his father, father, give me my part of the goods that to me belongeth. And he divided unto them his substance. And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living. And when he had spent all that he had, there rose a great dearth throughout all that same land. And he began to lack.read more.
And he went, and clave to a citizen of that same country, which sent him to his field, to keep his swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the cods, that the swine ate: and no man gave him. Then he came to himself and said, 'How many hired servants at my father's have bread enough, and I die for hunger.