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, “Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.
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sprawled out on their couches,
and dine on lambs from the flock
and calves from the stall.
If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
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Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”
Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.
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Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.
There is nothing better for man than to eat, drink, and enjoy his work. I have seen that even this is from God’s hand,
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Here is what I have seen to be good: it is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.
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So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself, for this will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
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Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.
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butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Luxurious living, examples of
sprawled out on their couches,
and dine on lambs from the flock
and calves from the stall.
At the end of this time, the king held a week-long banquet in the garden courtyard of the royal palace for all the people, from the greatest to the least, who were present in the fortress of Susa. White and violet linen hangings were fastened with fine white and purple linen cords to silver rods on marble columns. Gold and silver couches [were arranged] on a mosaic pavement of red feldspar, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.
Beverages were served in an array of gold goblets, each with a different design. Royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty
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Solomon's provisions for one day were 150 bushels of fine flour and 300 bushels of meal, 10 fattened oxen, 20 range oxen, and 100 sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and pen-fed poultry,
All of King Solomon's drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon's time, for the king had ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram's fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Prodigality, general references to
and anoint themselves with the finest oils
but do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
but a foolish man consumes them.
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Wantoness
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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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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but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Spiritual death
traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
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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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however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
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Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Poverty
whoever loves wine and oil will not get rich.
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » False security
"So now hear this, lover of luxury, who sits securely, who says to herself: I, and no one else, will never be a widow or know the loss of children. These two things will happen to you suddenly, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They will happen to you in their entirety, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Desire for incessant revelry
suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you.
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Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Presumption
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Spiritual barrenness
Related Topics
- Alcohol
- Amusements, Evil Results
- Being Happy And Enjoying Life
- Biting
- Bread
- Character Of Wicked
- Complacency
- Drinking Wine
- Eating And Drinking
- Eating Drinking And Rejoicing
- Enjoying Life
- Excess
- Extravagance
- Food
- Frugality
- Fun
- Gluttony