Luke 15:13
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.
Luke 15:30
This son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes. When he comes home you kill the prize calf for him!
Luke 16:1
Jesus told his disciples: There was a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man learned that the manager was accused of wasting his master's money.
2 Chronicles 33:1-10
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Job 21:13-15
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to the grave.
Job 22:17-18
They said to God: 'Leave us alone.' They asked: 'What can the Almighty do to us?'
Psalm 10:4-6
In his arrogant attitude he does not search for God. His faulty reasoning concludes: There is no God.
Psalm 73:27
Those who are far from you will perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
Proverbs 5:8-14
Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house.
Proverbs 6:26
A prostitute will cost you your last crust of bread. An adulteress will cost you your life.
Proverbs 18:9
He is lazy in his work. His brother destroys.
Proverbs 21:17
He that loves pleasure will be poor. He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
Proverbs 21:20
The wise have wealth and luxury but a fool spends all he gets.
Proverbs 23:19-22
Listen and be wise, my son, and direct your heart in the way.
Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.
Proverbs 28:7
He who obeys the law is a wise son. But he who is a companion of worthless men shames his father.
Proverbs 29:3
He who loves wisdom makes his father rejoice. But he who keeps company with fornicators wastes his wealth.
Ecclesiastes 11:9-10
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.
Isaiah 1:4
Woe to the sinful nation, people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who are corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah! They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from him.
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.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.'
Isaiah 56:12
Come, each one cries, let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.
Jeremiah 2:5
Jehovah says: What bad thing (injustice) did your fathers find in me that they went so far away from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless (lead astray) themselves.
Jeremiah 2:13
My people have done two things wrong: (l) They have abandoned me, the fountain (source) of living waters. They have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (Revelation 4:11)
Jeremiah 2:17-19
You have done this to yourself by abandoning Jehovah your God when he led you on his way.
Jeremiah 2:31
O you people of this generation consider the word of Jehovah! Have I been a wilderness, a land of thick darkness, for Israel? Why do my people say that they are free to wander around and no longer come to me?
Amos 6:3-7
You put far away the evil day and cause the place of violence to come near.
Micah 6:3
O my people, what have I done to you? How have I grieved you? Respond to me.
Luke 16:19
A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.
Romans 13:13-14
Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.
Ephesians 2:13
You were once far off but now with Christ Jesus, the blood of Christ has brought you near.
Ephesians 2:17
He came and preached peace to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near.
1 Peter 4:3-4
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).
2 Peter 2:13
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.