16 Bible Verses about Leisure, And Pastimes
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And he was in the stern, on the pillow, asleep. And they awoke him and said to him, Teacher, do you not care that we perish?
And when Herod was about to bring him forward, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards kept watch before the door.
the daughter of this Herodias came in and danced, and pleased Herod, and those that reclined with him. And the king said to the girl, Ask me what you will and I will give it to you;
for bodily exercise profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise of the present life and of the life to come.
Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain. And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;read more.
but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.
And if a man contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.
AND as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, Teacher, see what stones, and what buildings!
And while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved within him as he saw the city wholly devoted to idolatry.
And all the Athenians and the strangers living there spend their leisure in nothing else but telling or hearing something new.
The cloak which I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring, and the books, especially the parchments.
To what shall I liken this generation? It is like little children sitting in the markets, who call to their companions, and say, We have played on pipes for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned, and you have not lamented.
They are like little children sitting in the market, and they call to each other, saying, We have played on pipes to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not lamented.
For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,
Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy;
nor indecorum and foolish talking, or jesting, things not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.
