Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you. Your wealth is ruined: your clothes are moth-eaten; your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days! read more.
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Wantoness

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

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James 5:5

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

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Proverbs 29:3

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,
but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.

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Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

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Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Spiritual death

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

James 5:5

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

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1 Timothy 5:6

however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

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Riches » Often lead to » Sensual indulgence

James 5:5

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

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Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day.

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Riches » Denunciations against those who » Abuse

James 5:1

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

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James 5:5

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

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Worldliness » Perilous, some of the evil effects of » Leads to religious apostasy

James 5:5

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

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2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Worldly » Pleasure results of a pleasure-seeking life » Spiritual death

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.