7 Bible Verses about Extravagance
Most Relevant Verses
And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.
In a wise man's house there is great treasure and plenteousness; but a foolish body spendeth up all.
Whoso loveth wisdom, maketh his father a glad man; but he that keepeth harlots, spendeth away that he hath.
And when he had spent all that he had, there rose a great dearth throughout all that same land. And he began to lack. And he went, and clave to a citizen of that same country, which sent him to his field, to keep his swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the cods, that the swine ate: and no man gave him.read more.
Then he came to himself and said, 'How many hired servants at my father's have bread enough, and I die for hunger.
and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.' But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'
whose end is damnation, whose God is their belly and whose glory is to their shame, which are worldly minded.