7 Bible Verses about Extravagance
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'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;
A treasure to be desired, and oil, Is in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.
and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want; and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine, and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.read more.
'And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!
and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.