3 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---

But some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him; and some said, What would this babler say? and others, He seemeth to be a proclaimer of foreign deities: because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

Now there was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, living voluptuously and splendidly every day.

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together and went abroad into a distant country, and there squandered away his substance by living luxuriously.

but as soon as this thy son was come, who hath eaten up thy substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

For when they speak swelling words of vanity, they ensnare in the lusts of the flesh, through their lasciviousness, those who had indeed withdrawn from such as deal in error;

Ye have lived upon earth delicately and luxuriously; ye fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

but as soon as this thy son was come, who hath eaten up thy substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, going astray, enslaved to various disorderly appetites and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Ye have lived upon earth delicately and luxuriously; ye fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

But she that indulgeth to luxury, is dead while she liveth.

who account it a pleasure to riot even in the day; spots and disgraces; revelling in their frauds, while they partake of your feasts:

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast plenty of goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

And that which fell among thorns, are those who when they have heard the word go away and are choked with the cares and riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.