4 Bible Verses about Extravagance
Most Relevant Verses
"Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.
"After he had spent everything there came a terrible famine in the land, and he began to be in want. "So he went and hired to one of the citizens of that land, who sent him out into the fields to feed swine. "And he was longing to be filled with the husks which the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.read more.
"When he came to himself he said: "'How many of my father's hired men have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing of hunger!
"'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.' "But God said to him. 'Foolish man! This very night your soul is wanted! And these things you have prepared, whose shall they be?
Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things.
