Luke 12:19
I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.'
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. Let your heart cheer you in your early days. Walk in the ways of your heart, and in the desires of your eyes. Yet you know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.
Proverbs 27:1
Do not brag about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring.
1 Corinthians 15:32
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.
James 4:13-15
Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit.
Deuteronomy 6:11-12
The houses will be full of good things that you did not put in them. There will be wells that you did not dig. There will be vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. Jehovah will bring you into this land and you will have all you want to eat.
Deuteronomy 8:12-14
You will eat all you want. You will build nice houses and live in them.
Job 14:1
Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.
Job 21:11-13
They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.
Job 31:24-25
If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence,
Psalm 49:5-13
Why should I be afraid in times of trouble, when slanderers surround me with evil?
Psalm 49:18
Even though he blesses himself while he is alive. (People will praise you when you do well for yourself.)
Psalm 52:5-7
God will destroy you forever. He will remove you from your dwelling place from out of the land of the living.
Psalm 62:10
Do not count on extortion to make you rich. Do not hope to gain anything through robbery. When riches increase, do not depend on them.
Proverbs 18:11
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. It is his high wall of vanity.
Proverbs 23:5
Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.
Isaiah 5:8
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
Isaiah 5:11
How horrible it will be for those who get up early in the morning to look for a drink and who sit up late at night until they are drunk from wine.
Isaiah 22:13
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.
Hosea 12:8
The people of Ephraim say: We are rich. We have made a fortune. With all this wealth, no one will find us guilty of any sin.
Amos 6:3-6
You put far away the evil day and cause the place of violence to come near.
Habakkuk 1:16
He offers sacrifices and burns incense to his fishing net. For it is through this their catch is great and the food is plentiful.
Matthew 6:19-21
Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.
Luke 16:19
A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.
Luke 21:34
Be awake so your hearts are not weighed down. Do not allow the weight of worldly involvement, drunkenness, and cares of this life be a snare when that day suddenly comes.
Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction. Their god is their belly. Their glory is in their shame. They set their mind on earthly things.
1 Timothy 5:6
But she that gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
1 Timothy 6:17
Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
James 5:1-3
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
James 5:5
You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
1 Peter 4:3
You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).
Revelation 18:7
To the extent she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to that extent give her much torment and sorrow. She says in her heart: 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I shall see no sorrow.'