6 Bible Verses about Extravagance
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And not many days after, the younger son, having gathered all together, journeyed into a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth living recklessly.
There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of a wise man, but a foolish man swallows it up.
He who loves wisdom delights his father, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes [his] substance.
And when he spent all, a mighty famine developed in that country, and he began to be in want. And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he longed to fill his belly from the husks that the swine ate, and no man gave to him.read more.
But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.