Thematic Bible: Results of a pleasure-seeking life
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Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.” And behold, it too was futility.
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And calves from the midst of the stall,
If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.
So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
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Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Luxurious living, examples of
And sprawl on their
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And calves from the midst of the stall,
When these days were completed, the king gave a banquet lasting seven days for all the people who were present at the citadel in Susa, from the greatest to the least, in the court of the garden of the king's palace. There were hangings of fine white and violet linen held by cords of fine purple linen on silver rings and marble columns, and couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.
Drinks were served in golden vessels of various kinds, and the royal wine was plentiful according to the king’s bounty.
Solomon's provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal, ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. For the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Prodigality, general references to
While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils,
Yet they have not
But a foolish man
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Wantoness
For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,
You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
But he who
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Spiritual death
You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Poverty
He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
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Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » False security
"Now, then, hear this, you sensual one, Who dwells securely, Who says in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me I will not sit as a widow, Nor know loss of children.' "But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells.
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Desire for incessant revelry
suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Presumption
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Spiritual barrenness
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- Complacency
- Drinking Wine
- Eating And Drinking
- Eating Drinking And Rejoicing
- Enjoying Life
- Excess
- Extravagance
- Food
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- Fun
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