46 Bible Verses about Leisure, And Pastimes
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It is vain to work hard for the food you eat by getting up early and going to bed late. Jehovah gives food to those he loves while they sleep.
In peace I will both lie down and sleep. For you alone, O Jehovah, make my dwelling safe and secure.
He was in back of the boat sleeping on a cushion. They woke him. They said: Master is it nothing to you that we are in danger of destruction?
It was the night before Herod was to bring him to trial. Peter was sleeping between two soldiers. He was bound with two chains. Sentries stood guard at the prison door.
He and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they got up in the morning, he said: Let me go back to my master.
Abraham said: My Lord, if I have now found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Please. Let a little water be brought. Wash your feet and rest under the tree. I will bring a bite to eat to refresh you. Stay a while before you continue your journey. They responded: Very well, do as you have said.
Solomon woke up and was aware that God had spoken to him in the dream. Then he went to Jerusalem and stood in front of Jehovah's Ark of the Covenant. He offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to Jehovah. Then he gave a feast for all his officials.
He said to them: Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready. This day is holy to our Lord. Let there be no grief in your hearts. The joy of Jehovah is your strong place.
Job's sons used to take turns giving a feast. They invited many others to come, and they always invited their three sisters to join them.
Whenever the distressing spirit from God bothered Saul, David would play his harp. Saul would relax and feel better. The distressing spirit would go away.
So give us the order and we will look for a man who knows how to play the harp. Then when the distressing spirit comes on you, the man can play his harp, and you will be all right again. Saul ordered: Find me a man who plays well and bring him to me. One of his attendants said: Jesse of the town of Bethlehem has a son who is a good musician. He is also a brave and handsome man, a good soldier, and an able speaker. Jehovah is with him.
Elisha answered: By the living God Jehovah, whom I serve, I swear that I would have nothing to do with you if I did not respect your ally, King Jehoshaphat of Judah. Now bring me a musician. As the musician played his harp, the power of Jehovah came on Elisha.
The prophet Miriam, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand. All the women, danced with tambourines, and followed her.
Jephthah went back home to Mizpah. His daughter came out to meet him, dancing and playing the tambourine. She was his only child.
David returned from a campaign against the Philistines. That same day women from all of Israel's cities came to meet King Saul. They sang and danced. Tambourines, joyful music, and triangles accompanied them.
They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.
I will build you and you will be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You will take up your tambourines and go to the dances of the merrymakers.
They said: The yearly festival of Jehovah at Shiloh is coming soon. (Shiloh is north of Bethel, south of Lebonah, and east of the road between Bethel and Shechem.) They told the Benjaminites: Go hide in the vineyards. When the young women of Shiloh come out to dance during the festival, you come out of the vineyards. Each of you should take a wife by force from among them and take her back to the territory of Benjamin with you.
When the daughter of Herodias danced for Herod and his guests, she pleased him so much he promised her anything she desired.
Wearing a linen ephod, David danced in Jehovah's presence with all his might. He and the entire nation of Israel brought the Ark of Jehovah with shouts of joy and the sounding of rams' horns. When the Ark of Jehovah came to the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked out of a window and saw King David leaping and dancing in Jehovah's presence. She despised him in her heart.
Let them praise his name with dancing. Let them make music to him with tambourines and lyres.
Praise him with tambourines and dancing. Praise him with stringed instruments and flutes.
Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. However, godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the life that is to come.
Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize. Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown. I do not run without definite aim (purpose) and I do not fight like a man beating the air.read more.
But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.
If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.
Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
When I look at your heavens, the creation of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have set in place,
You send watering springs to the valleys. They flow between the mountains. They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell. They lift up voices among the branches.read more.
You water the mountains from your upper chambers. The earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works. You cause the grass to grow for the cattle and vegetation for the labor of man. That he may bring forth food from the earth,
As he left the temple one of his disciples said to him: Teacher look at these stones and the great buildings!
Paul waited for them at Athens. His spirit was irritated within him when he saw the city full of idols.
He wrote three thousand proverbs and more than a thousand songs. He spoke of trees and plants, from the Lebanon cedars to the hyssop that grows on walls. He talked about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. Kings all over the world heard of his wisdom and sent people to listen to the Wisdom of Solomon.
A wise man will hear and will increase learning. A man of understanding will procure wise counsel.
The Athenians and the strangers who lived there spent their time doing nothing else except talking about and listening to new ideas.
When you come, bring the books, parchments, and the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus.
Of what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their playmates. They say: 'We piped for you and you did not dance. We cried and you did not mourn.'
They are like children that sit in the marketplace and call to each other. We played the flute for you but you did not dance. We wailed and you did not weep.
You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).
Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard. He drank some of its wine. He became drunk and lay undressed inside his tent.
Moses came close enough to the camp at the foot of the mountain to see the bull-calf and to see the people dancing. He became furious! He threw down the tablets he was carrying and broke them.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has discord? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who stay long at the wine. They seek mixed wine.
Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.
Nor should there be filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting but rather giving of thanks.
They forced him to stand between the columns. When the people saw him, they sang praise to their god: Our god gave us victory over our enemy, who devastated our land and killed so many of us!
Abner yelled to Joab: Let some of our best soldiers get up and fight each other! Joab agreed.
