47 Bible Verses about Self Indulgence

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, performing the wishes of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as others;

But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.

for such serve not our anointed Lord, but themselves, And by kind and complimentary words deceive the minds of the simple.

For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;

But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his desires, and enticed;

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error, promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant.

for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, natural, demoniacal. For where envy and strife are, there are disorder and every evil work.

idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies,

in Sawyer]those from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel,

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask; you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children,

your gold and silver are destroyed with rust, and their rust will be a witness against you, and consume your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasures for the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry, and the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. You have lived in luxury on the earth and in pleasure, you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.

who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature, and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit. And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper,read more.
being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers, evil speakers, haters of God, injurious, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, unintelligent, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful,

AND know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come. Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good,read more.
traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

And he said, I will do this; I will take down my storehouses and build greater; and there will I bring together all my produce and my goods; and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years rest, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself. But God said to him, Foolish man, this night they shall require your soul from you; and who then will have the goods which you have provided?read more.
So is every one that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich in God.

And not many days after, the youngest son, collecting all his property, went abroad to a distant country; and there wasted his property, living intemperately. And when he had spent all, there was a severe famine in that country; and he began to be in want. And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his field to feed swine.read more.
And he desired to fill his stomach with the carob pods which the swine eat; and no man gave him.

but a woman that lives voluptuously is dead while she lives.

but to those who are contentions and disobey the truth, and obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things.

and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years rest, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself. But God said to him, Foolish man, this night they shall require your soul from you; and who then will have the goods which you have provided?

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and platter, but within they are full of plunder and excess.

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

Which have an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous treatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting of the flesh.

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit;

And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh.

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,

that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication, that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor, not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air; but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober therefore, and watch in prayers;

and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety,

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

but I tell you, that every one who looks on a woman to desire her inordinately, has already committed adultery with her in his heart. But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,

For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.

All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but all things do not edify. Let no one seek his own but the good of another.

Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each esteem others better than himself, and let each consider not his own interests, but also those of others.

And Zaccheus stood up and said to the Lord, Behold, half of my property, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of any thing, I restore fourfold.