Amusements and Pleasures, Worldly
Belong to the works of the flesh -- Ga 5:19,21. Are transitory -- Job 21:12,13; Heb 11:25. Are all vanity -- Ec 2:11. Choke the word of God in the heart -- Lu 8:14. Formed a part of idolatrous worship -- Ex 32:4,6,19; 1Co 10:7; Jdj 16:23-25. Lead to Rejection of God. -- Job 21:14,15. Poverty. -- Pr 21:17. Disregard of the judgments and works of God. -- Isa 5:12; Am 6:1-6. Terminate in sorrow -- Pr 14:13. Are likely to lead to greater evil -- Job 1:5; Mt 14:6-8. The wicked seek for happiness in -- Ec 2:1,8. Indulgence in A proof of folly. -- Ec 7:4. A characteristic of the wicked. -- Isa 47:8; Eph 4:17,19; 2Ti 3:4; Tit 3:3; 1Pe 4:3. A proof of spiritual death. -- 1Ti 5:6. An abuse of riches. -- Jas 5:1,5. Wisdom of abstaining from -- Ec 7:2,3. Shunned by the saints -- 1Pe 4:3. Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked -- 1Pe 4:4. Denounced by God -- Isa 5:11,12. Punishment of -- Ec 11:9; 2Pe 2:13. Renunciation of, Exemplified Moses. -- Heb 11:25.