6 Bible Verses about Amusements
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for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.
however, a favourable opportunity happen'd for her, upon Herod's making an entertainment the birth-night, for all the great officers of the court, and army, and persons of the first distinction in Galilee.
they are like children playing together in the street, who cry, we have play'd to you on the flute, but you have not danced: we have sung mournful dittys, but you have not lamented.
now the Athenians, and the foreigners residing at Athens generally amus'd themselves about nothing, but hearing and spreading of news.
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Amusements » General reference to
Amusements » Of children
but to what shall I compare this generation? they are like children sitting in the markets, and calling out to their fellows, "if we play a merry tune, you are not for dancing; if we act a mournful part, you are not in the humour."
Topics on Amusements
Amusements Of Children
Matthew 11:16-17but to what shall I compare this generation? they are like children sitting in the markets, and calling out to their fellows,
Amusements, Evil Results
1 Corinthians 10:6-8now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did.