LOVE not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
I John 2:15.
WHEREFORE, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
I Corinthians 8:13
Paul was willing to give up meat for the sake of others. Can you not give up something?
AND whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Colossians 3:17.
WHETHER therefore ye eat, or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
I Corinthians 10:31
BE YE not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
II Corinthians 6:14.
NO man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other, Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:24.
YE adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God.
James 4:4
WHEREFORE come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord.
II Corinthians 6:17
NO man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
II Timothy 2:4
FOR ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
I Corinthians 6:20
WALK in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
KNOW ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
I Corinthians 3:16, 17.
DO you think that you could retain the Holy Spirit while on a Ball Room floor? Would that not be defiling the temple of the Holy Spirit? Your body is that temple.
THEY profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Titus 1:16.
When you are on a dance floor or sitting at the card table, are you confessing Christ by your works? Could you invite Him to join you? Can you ask a blessing on it.
BE careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God.
Philippians 4:6.
WHETHER therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
I Corinthians 10:31.
Do you dance and play cards for the glory of God?
BE ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God:
II Corinthians 6:14-16.
Some say: “All my friends dance, and my pastor does not object to our dances.”
I must say with Paul:
IF any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:9.