4 Bible Verses about Extravagance
Most Relevant Verses
No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.
At last, when he had spent everything, there came a terrible famine throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch of want. So he went and hired himself to one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him on to his farm to tend swine; and he longed to make a hearty meal of the pods the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.read more.
"But on coming to himself he said, "'How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!
and I will say to my life, "'Life, you have ample possessions laid up for many years to come: take your ease, eat, drink, enjoy yourself.' "But God said to him, "'Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations--for whom shall they be?'
Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted to earthly things.
