7 Bible Verses about Extravagance
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And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.
There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise,
But a foolish man swallows it up.
A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad,
But he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.
Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.read more.
But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!
And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’
Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
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