16 Bible Verses about Leisure, And Pastimes
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Now he himself was sleeping on the cushion in the stern, so they woke him up, saying, "Master, do you not care if we perish?"
Now when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that very night, while Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison,
at which the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced. She charmed Herod and his guests. "Ask me whatever you want," said the king to the young girl, "and I will give it to you."
For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.
Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win. Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading. For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,read more.
but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.
And again, an athlete is not crowned unless he obeys the rules of the game.
As Jesus was walking out of the Temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and buildings these are!"
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he noticed that the city was full of idols.
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear some new thing.)
When you come, bring the cloak I left in Troas with Carpus; also my books, but especially my parchments.
"To what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-place, who call to the other children, "saying. 'We have piped to you and you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not beaten your breasts.'
"To What are they like, they are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another. "'We have piped to you,' they say, 'and you have not danced; we have wailed, and you did not cry.'
For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.
Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;
so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving.
