7 Bible Verses about Extravagance
Most Relevant Verses
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.read more.
But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?'
Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Never miss a post