7 Bible Verses about Wantonness
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but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'
Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.
cargoes of gold and silver, of jewels and pearls, of fine linen, purple and silk, and of scarlet stuff; all kinds of rare woods, and all kinds of goods in ivory and in very costly wood, in bronze, steel and marble.
For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.
No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.
Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy.
From Thematic Bible
Wantonness » Not walking in wantonness
Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy.
Worldly » Pleasure results of a pleasure-seeking life » Wantonness
For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.
Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.
but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'