6 Bible Verses about Amusements
Most Relevant Verses
Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.
A suitable opportunity, however, occurred when Herod, on his birthday, gave a dinner to his high officials, and his generals, and the foremost men in Galilee.
They are like some little children who are sitting in the market-place and calling out to one another--'We have played the flute for you, but you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not wept!'
(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)
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Amusements » General reference to
Amusements » Of children
But to what shall I compare the present generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-places and calling out to their playmates-- 'We have played the flute for you, but you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not mourned.'
Topics on Amusements
Amusements Of Children
Matthew 11:16-17But to what shall I compare the present generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-places and calling out to their playmates--
Amusements, Evil Results
1 Corinthians 10:6-8Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our forefathers longed.