Question: "Why is it wrong to dance?" Intro: Some types of dancing are not sin. 2 Sam.6:14: David danced before the Lord with all His might. Miriam led the women in dancing and rejoicing when Israel had crossed the Red Sea (Ex. 15:20-21). But that is not the type of dancing under consideration in the question. 1. Dancing is condemned as a work of the flesh. It is included in the word lasciviousness in Gal.5:19-21, and in the word wantonness in Rom.13:13. Thayer: "filthy words, indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of males and females" (pages 79,80). Dancing produces lewd and lustful thoughts or emotions. 2. Dancing bears evil fruit. Jesus said: "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matt.7:20). The modern dance has produced broken hearted parents, fornication, divorce, drunkenness, prostitution, cursing, fighting, murder and other sins. Dancing cannot be a good tree with such rotten fruit. 3. Someone has said that a dancing foot and a praying knee don't grow on the same leg. It is altogether inconsistent with prayer, Bible study, evangelism, and principles which God wants His children to live out in their lives.