4 Bible Verses about Extravagance
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Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation.
After he had spent it all, a severe famine struck that country, and he began to suffer want. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed hogs. And often he craved to fill himself with the carob-pods which the hogs were eating, and nobody gave him a bite.read more.
Then he came to himself and said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more to eat than they need, and here I am dying of hunger!
Then I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Go on taking your ease; continue to eat, drink, and enjoy yourself."' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is to be demanded of you. Then who will have all that you have prepared?'
Their doom is destruction, their stomach is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are feeding on earthly things,
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