AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES. Belong to the works of the flesh, Gal. 5:19,21; are transitory, Job 21:12,13; Heb. 11:25; vain, Eccl. 2:11; choke the word of God in the heart, Luke 8:14; formed a part of idolatrous worship, Ex. 32:4,6,19, with 1 Cor. 10:7; Judg. 16:23-25. Lead to rejection of God, Job 21:12-15; poverty, Prov. 21:17; disregard of the judgments and works of God, Isa. 5:12; Amos 6:1-6; terminate in sorrow, Prov. 14:13; lead to greater evil, Job 1:5; Matt. 14:6-8; the wicked seek for happiness in, Eccl. 2:1,8. Indulgence in, a proof of folly, Eccl. 7:4; a characteristic of the wicked, Isa. 47:8; Eph. 4:17,19; 2 Tim. 3:4; Tit. 3:3; 1 Pet. 4:3; a proof of spiritual death, 1 Tim. 5:6; an abuse of riches, Ja. 5:1,5; wisdom of abstaining from, Eccl. 7:2,3; shunned by the primitive saints, 1 Pet. 4:3. Abstinence from, seems strange to the wicked, 1 Pet. 4:4; denounced by God, Isa. 5:11,12; exclude from the kingdom of God, Gal. 5:21; punishment of, Eccl. 11:9; 2 Pet. 2:13; renunciation of, exemplified by Moses, Heb. 11:25. See Dancing; Games; Pleasure, Worldly; Worldliness.