7 Bible Verses about Extravagance
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Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.read more.
"But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
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