7 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

And at the end of that time, the king gave a feast for all the people who were present in Shushan, the king's town, small as well as great, for seven days, in the outer square of the garden of the king's house. There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.

And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal; Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

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.

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

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.

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me. But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.

For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

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.

And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit.