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Isaiah 47:8
Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that dwell carelessly, that say in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
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Ephesians 4:17,19
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now on walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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2 Timothy 3:4
Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
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Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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1 Peter 4:3
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, parties, and abominable idolatries:
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Library

Doing Glory to God in Pursuits of the World.
... He has been fond of gaiety and amusements, or he ... them, to despise the natural and
ordinary pleasures of life ... duty of being active in our worldly business, lest ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xi doing glory to.htm

Introductory Notice Respecting Tauler's Life and Times
... availed themselves of fervent piety or worldly power. ... come to be mere habits or
pleasures; and that ... dressed magnificently, took part in the amusements of the ...
/.../introductory notice respecting taulers life.htm

Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... Antichrist, his characteristic, to glorify himself, [77]148 ... Churches, no worldly
thoughts to intrude there, [612]8 ... Company of wicked men dangerous and offensive ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homilies on the gospel of.htm

part i
... of mankind has largely participated; the writings of ordinary worldly men are the ...
by the vanities of this world and attachments to its objects and pleasures? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/my life in christ/part i.htm

Memoir of John Bunyan
... had indulged, so far as his worldly calling allowed ... delights, and did imbitter my
former pleasures to me ... in its prime; and, with his characteristic humility, he ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/memoir of john bunyan.htm

From the Close of the General Conference of 1832 to the Beginning ...
... and the daily temptations to vain amusements by his ... and in regular order, this being
characteristic of his ... decline of life in his worldly circumstances, and ...
/.../chapter 12 from the close.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... in their garb, and adopting feminine occupations and amusements. ... with the women of
the harem, by pleasures of a ... and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

Subtopics

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Amusements and Worldly Pleasures are Transitory

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: A Characteristic of the Wicked

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: A Proof of Spiritual Death

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Abstinence From, Seems Strange to the Wicked

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: An Abuse of Riches

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Belong to the Works of the Flesh

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Choke the Word of God in the Heart

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Denounced by God

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Disregard of the Judgments and Works of God

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Exclude from the Kingdom of God