16 Bible Verses about Leisure, And Pastimes
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And He was in the stern, sleeping on a pillow: and they awaken Him, and say to Him; Teacher, is there no care to thee that we perish?
But when Herod was about to lead him forth, and Peter was sleeping that night between two soldiers, and bound with two chains; and the guards were keeping guard before the door.
and the daughter of Herodias herself, having come in and danced, and pleased Herod and those sitting with him; the king said to the damsel. Ask what you may wish, and I will give it to you.
For bodily exercise is profitable unto little; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it. But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:read more.
but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.
And He departing out from the temple, one of His disciples says to Him, Teacher, behold, how great stones and how great buildings!
But Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, seeing the city devoted to idolatry.
But all the Athenians and itinerant strangers were accustomed to devote their time to nothing else, than to tell something new, or to hear something.
Coming, bring the cloak, which I left in Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments.
But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-place, and calling to their comrades, and saying, We piped unto you, and you did not dance; we mourned unto you, and you did not lament.
They are like unto little children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, We piped unto you, and you did not dance; we mourned unto you, and you did not weep.
For the past time is sufficient to have wrought the will of the heathens, walking in impurities, in lusts, in wine-drinkings, in revelries, in intemperance, and in unlawful idolatries:
Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:
and indecorum, or foolish talking, or indecent jesting, which is not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks: