20 Bible Verses about Amusements

Even in laughter the heart has pain; and joy may end in grief.

Job's sons used to take turns giving a feast. They invited many others to come, and they always invited their three sisters to join them.

He that loves pleasure will be poor. He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Early the next day the people sacrificed burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. After that they sat down to a feast, which turned into an orgy.

They forced him to stand between the columns. When the people saw him, they sang praise to their god: Our god gave us victory over our enemy, who devastated our land and killed so many of us!

Abner yelled to Joab: Let some of our best soldiers get up and fight each other! Joab agreed.

They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around. They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with rejoicing. Consider goodness. This also is vanity. I said of laughter: It is madness. And of pleasure: What does it do?

At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they do not pay attention to what Jehovah is doing or respect what his hands have done.

You sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David you improvise on musical instruments.

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing there in the streets.

Moses replied: That does not sound like a shout of victory or a cry of defeat; it is the sound of singing. Moses came close enough to the camp at the foot of the mountain to see the bull-calf and to see the people dancing. He became furious! He threw down the tablets he was carrying and broke them.

Moses saw that the people were naked. Aaron had made them naked to their shame among their enemies.

David returned from a campaign against the Philistines. That same day women from all of Israel's cities came to meet King Saul. They sang and danced. Tambourines, joyful music, and triangles accompanied them. The women who celebrated sang: Saul has defeated thousands but David tens of thousands!

You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).

It was Herod's birthday. He invited his lords, the military commanders, and the prominent men of Galilee to supper.

They are like children that sit in the marketplace and call to each other. We played the flute for you but you did not dance. We wailed and you did not weep.

The Athenians and the strangers who lived there spent their time doing nothing else except talking about and listening to new ideas.