Topic
Amusements and Worldly Pleasures
38 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 32:4Nave Formed a part of idolatrous worship
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 32:6Nave Formed a part of idolatrous worship
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
- Exodus 32:19Nave Formed a part of idolatrous worship
¶ And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
- Judges 16:23–25Nave Formed a part of idolatrous worship
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for…
- Job 1:5Nave Lead to greater evil
And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and…
- Job 21:12Nave Are transitory
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- Job 21:13Nave Are transitory
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Job 21:14Nave Lead to rejection of God
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- Job 21:15Nave Lead to rejection of God
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
- Proverbs 14:13Nave Terminate in sorrow
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
- Proverbs 21:17Nave Poverty
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
- Ecclesiastes 2:1Nave The wicked seek for happiness in
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:8 Nave The wicked seek for happiness in
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 Nave Vain
- Ecclesiastes 7:2 Nave Wisdom of abstaining from
- Ecclesiastes 7:3 Nave Wisdom of abstaining from
- Ecclesiastes 7:4 Nave Indulgence in is — A proof of folly
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 Nave Punishment of
- Isaiah 5:11 Nave Denounced by God
- Isaiah 5:12 Nave Disregard of the judgments and works of God
- Isaiah 47:8 Nave A characteristic of the wicked
- Amos 6:1–6 Nave Disregard of the judgments and works of God
- Matthew 14:6–8 Nave Lead to greater evil
- Luke 8:14 Nave Choke the word of God in the heart
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 Nave Formed a part of idolatrous worship
- Galatians 5:19 Nave Belong to the works of the flesh
- Galatians 5:21 Nave Belong to the works of the flesh
- Ephesians 4:17 Nave A characteristic of the wicked
- Ephesians 4:19 Nave A characteristic of the wicked
- 1 Timothy 5:6 Nave A proof of spiritual death
- 2 Timothy 3:4 Nave A characteristic of the wicked
- Titus 3:3 Nave A characteristic of the wicked
- Hebrews 11:25 Nave Are transitory
- James 5:1 Nave An abuse of riches
- James 5:5 Nave An abuse of riches
- 1 Peter 4:3 Nave A characteristic of the wicked
- 1 Peter 4:4 Nave Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked
- 2 Peter 2:13 Nave Punishment of
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 42 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Belong to the works of the flesh Ga 5:19,21
- → Are transitory Job 21:12,13; Heb 11:25
- → Vain 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; with 1Co 10:7; Jud 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
- → Lead to greater evil Job 1:5; Mt 14:6-8
- → The wicked seek for happiness in Ec 2:1,8
- → Indulgence in is
- 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 primitive saints 1Pe 4:3
- → Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked 1Pe 4:4
- → Denounced by God Isa 5:11,12
- → Exclude from the kingdom of God Ga 5:21
- → Punishment of Ec 11:9; 2Pe 2:13
- → Renunciation of, exemplified by Moses Heb 11:25
- → See DANCING
- → See GAMES
- → See PLEASURE, WORLDLY
- → See WORLDLINESS
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.