4 Bible Verses about Extravagance
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A few days later the younger son got together all that he had, and went away into a distant land; and there he squandered his inheritance by leading a dissolute life.
After he has spent all that he had, there was a severe famine through all that country, and he began to be in actual want. So he went and engaged himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs. He even longed to satisfy his hunger with the bean-pods on which the pigs were feeding; 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 bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!
And I will say to myself, Now you have plenty of good things put by for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.' But God said to the man 'Fool! This very night your life is being demanded; and as for all you have prepared--who will have it?'
The end of such men is Ruin; for their appetites are their God, and they glory in their shame; their minds are given up to earthly things.
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