6 Bible Verses about Amusements
Most Relevant Verses
For the time past of our life is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, inordinate desires, excess of wine, revellings, drunkenness, and abominable idolatries:
But a convenient day happening, when Herod on his birth-night gave a supper to his lords, and chief officers, and persons of distinction in Galilee; and the daughter of Herodias coming in,
and to what are they like? they are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, "We have played pleasant tunes to you, and ye have not danced; we have sung mournful ones and ye have not wept:"
(Now all the Athenians, and strangers sojourning among them, spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear something new.)
From Thematic Bible
Amusements » General reference to
Amusements » Of children
But to what shall I compare this generation? they are like children sitting in the market-places, and calling to their companions, and saying "We have sung and ye have not danced; we have mourned, and ye have not lamented:"
Topics on Amusements
Amusements Of Children
Matthew 11:16-17But to what shall I compare this generation? they are like children sitting in the market-places,
Amusements, Evil Results
1 Corinthians 10:6-8Now these things were examples for us, that we might not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.