11 Bible Verses about Amusements, Evil Results

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that joy is heaviness.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

And these things were our examples, that we should not be lusters after evil, as they also lusted. Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

But she who lives in self-pleasure has died while living.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he pursuing vanities shall have poverty enough.

Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.

I said of laughter, It is madness; and of mirth, What does it do?

for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.

And it happened, as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and dances, the anger of Moses became hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them at the bottom of the mountain.

Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that is coming to me. And he divided his living to them. And not many days afterward, the younger son gathered all together and went away into a far country. And there he wasted his property, living dissolutely. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land. And he began to be in want.read more.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country. And he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, and no one gave to him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger!