Thematic Bible: Excess, general references to
Thematic Bible
Excess » Excess, general references to
Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
Intemperance » Examples of » Excess, general references to
Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
Temperance » Drunkards examples of » Excess, general references to
Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.