16 Bible Verses about Leisure, And Pastimes
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But he was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care if we perish?"
The very night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.
And when the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you want, and I will give it to you."
For bodily training is of some value, but godliness is of value in all things, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I do not run aimlessly. I do not box as a man beating the air.read more.
But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.
And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!"
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)
When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and the books, especially the parchments.
"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.'
They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another: 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.'
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in quarreling and jealousy.
And there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather let there be thanksgiving.
