46 Bible Verses about Leisure, And Pastimes

In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.

In peace together shall I lie down, and I shall sleep: for thou Jehovah alone wilt cause me to dwell confidently.

And he was upon the back part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow: and they aroused him, and say to him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?

And when Herod was about to bring him before, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the watch before the door kept the prison.

And they will eat and drink, he and the men which were with him; and they will pass the night; and they will rise up in the morning, and he will say, Send me forth to my lord.

And he will say, Lord, if now I found grace in thine eyes, now thou wilt not pass away from thy servant Now he shall take a little water, and will wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will take a bit of food, and strengthen your heart, afterwards ye shall pass away; for, for this ye passed over to your servant And they will say, Thou shalt do according to what thou saidst

Being hospitable to one another without murmurings.

And Solomon will awake; and behold, a dream. And he will go to Jerusalem and stand before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and bring up burnt-offerings, and he will do peace, and make a drinking to all his servants.

And he will say to them, Go ye; eat fatnesses, and drink sweetnesses, and send portions to him for whom nothing was prepared: for the day is holy to our Lord: and ye shall not grieve, for the joy of Jehovah this is your strength.

And his sons went and made a drinking in the house, a man his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

And it was in the spirit of God being upon Saul, and David took the harp and played with his hand, and it was refreshed to Saul, and it was good to him, and the evil spirit departed from him.

Will our lord now say to thy servants before thee, Seek out a man knowing to play upon the harp: and it was in the evil spirit of God being upon thee, and he playing with the hand and doing good to thee. And Saul will say to his servants, See, now, a man to me being good to play, and bring to me. And one of his boys will answer and say, I saw a son to Jesse of the House of Bread, knowing to play, mighty of strength, and a man of war, and discerning the word, and a man of figure, and Jehovah with him.

And Elisha will say, Jehovah of armies lives whom I stand before him, for unless I accept the face of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, if I will look to thee and if I will, see thee And now take to me a player on an instrument And it was when the player played, and the hand of Jehovah will be upon him.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, will take the drum in her hand; and all the women will go forth after her, with drums and with lutes.

And Jephthah will come to Mizpeh to his house, and behold, his daughter will come forth to his meeting with drums and with lutes: and she the only begotten; not to him beside her, son nor daughter.

And it will be in their coming, in David's turning back from the striking of the rover, and the women will come forth from all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing to meet Saul the king, with drums and with gladness and with triangles:

They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap.

I will yet build thee, and thou wert built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet be adorned with the tabret, and thou wentest forth into the dance of those playing.

And they will say, Behold, a festival of Jehovah in Shiloh from days to days, which is from the north to the house of God, from the rising of the sun to the highway going from the house of God to Shechem, and from the south to Lebonah. And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, Go, and lie in wait in the vineyards; And see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh shall come forth to dance in dances, and come ye out from the vineyards and catch for yourselves each his wife from the daughters of Shiloh) and go to the land of Benjamin.

And the daughter of this Herodias, having come in, and danced, and pleased Herod and those reclining together at table, the king said to the little girl, Ask me whatever thou wishest, and I will give thee.

And David leaping with all strength before Jehovah: and David was girded with a linen ephod. And David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Jehovah with shouts and with the voice of the trumpet, And the ark of Jehovah was coming to the city of David, and Michal, Saul's daughter, looked forth without the window, and she will see king David being strengthened and leaping before Jehovah, and she will despise him in her heart.

They shall praise his name in the dance, and they shall play to him upon the drum and harp.

Praise him with the drum and the dance: praise ye him with strings and the pipe.

For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive. And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:read more.
But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

And also if any contend for a prize, he is not crowned, except he contend for a prize lawfully.

And Jehovah God will take the man and will set him down in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

For I shall see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars which thou didst prepare.

Sending forth fountains into the valleys, they will go between the mountains. They shall water all the beasts of the field: the wild asses shall break their thirst. Upon them the birds of the heavens shall dwell, from between their boughs they shall give a voice.read more.
Watering the mountains from. his upper chambers: with the fruit of thy work shall the earth be filled. Causing grass to spring up for the cattle, and the green herb for the service of man, to bring forth bread from the earth:

And he going out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him, Teacher, see of what country the stones, and of what country the buildings!

And Paul waiting for them among the Athenians, his spirit was excited in him, seeing the city being addicted to idol worship.

And he will speak three thousand parables: and his songs will be five and a thousand. And he will speak concerning the woods, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop which went forth on the wall: and he will speak upon the cattle, and upon the birds, and upon the creeping things, and upon the fishes. And there will come from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who heard his wisdom.

The wise one will hear and he will add learning: and he understanding, shall obtain guidance:

(And all the Athenians and strangers being present, passed time in nothing else but to say or hear some thing new.)

The cloak which I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring, and the books, chiefly the parchments.

And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her broad places.

To what shall I liken this generation I it is like little boys sitting in market-places, and calling to their companions, And saying, We played the flute to you, and ye moved not; we lamented to you and ye lamented not.

They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not; we lamented to you, and ye wept not.

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

And Noah will begin a man of the earth, and he will plant a vineyard. And he will drink of the wine and he will be intoxicated, and will be uncovered within his tent

And it will be when he drew near to the camp, and he will see the calf and the lute: and the wrath of Moses will kindle, and he will cast the tables out of his hand, and he will break them under the mount

To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes? To those remaining at the wine; to those going to seek mixed wine.

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.

And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.

And it will be when their heart will be joyful, and they will say, Call to Samson, and he shall play to us. And they will call to Samson from the house of bonds and he will play before them, and they will set him between the pillars.

And Abner will say to Joab, Now shall the boys arise and play before us. And Joab will say, They shall arise.