7 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with rejoicing. Consider goodness. This also is vanity.

You lie on beds of ivory, and stretch on couches. You eat the the best lambs out of the flock and the fattest calves out of the stall.

If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.

The Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said: What is this babbler saying? Others: He seems to be advocating strange gods because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and delight in his work. This also I saw was from the hand of God.

You lie on beds of ivory, and stretch on couches. You eat the the best lambs out of the flock and the fattest calves out of the stall.

A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.

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 hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best (cotton) 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.

They served drinks in gold vessels. Every vessel was different. The king freely gave wine from the kingdom.

The supplies Solomon needed each day were one hundred and fifty bushels of fine flour and three hundred bushels of meal. Also needed were ten stall-fed cattle, twenty pasture-fed cattle, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fowl (cuckoo).

You drink wine in bowls, and anoint yourselves with the finest oils. But you are not grieved because of the affliction of Joseph.

In a short time the younger son sold his share of the property. He left home with the money and traveled to a far away country where he wasted his money in reckless living.

This son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes. When he comes home you kill the prize calf for him!

He is lazy in his work. His brother destroys.

The wise have wealth and luxury but a fool spends all he gets.

For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

He who loves wisdom makes his father rejoice. But he who keeps company with fornicators wastes his wealth.

This son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes. When he comes home you kill the prize calf for him!

traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

But she that gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

He that loves pleasure will be poor. He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Hear this you sensual one! You dwell securely and say in your heart: 'I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow. I will not lose children.' (Revelation 18:2-8) Two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure in spite of your abundance of sorceries, in spite of the great power of your spells.

They suffer wrong as their reward for wrongdoing. They are men that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.'

The seeds that fell among the thorns are people who hear the word and go their own way. They are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and do not produce fruit.