7 Bible Verses about Extravagance
Most Relevant Verses
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.
A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.
And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need. And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food. And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.read more.
But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.