Thematic Bible: Self-indulgence
Thematic Bible
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Self-indulgence
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Verse Concepts
Self-indulgence » Instances of » The rich fool
He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. read more.
I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?'
I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?'
Self-indulgence » Instances of » The rich man who feasted every day
"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Verse Concepts
Self-indulgence » Instances of » Solomon
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
Verse Concepts
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Self-indulgence
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Verse Concepts