16 Bible Verses about Luxury

All glory the king's daughter, in front: her clothing textures of gold. With variegation she shall be brought to the King; the virgins after her, her companions, being brought to thee. They shall be brought with gladness and joy: they shall come into the temple of the king.

And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon, gold, and every vessel of the house of the forest of Lebanon, gold shut up; nothing silver: it was not reckoned in the days of Solomon for any thing.

A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened:

And Pharaoh will say to Joseph, See, I gave thee over all the land of Egypt And Pharaoh will remove his signet ring from his hand, and will give it upon Joseph's hand; and will put upon him a white garment, and will put a gold collar about his neck. And he will cause him to ride in the second chariot which is to him. And they will cry out before him, Aback. And he gave him over all the land of Egypt.

But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold, those in glorious clothing, and being in luxury, are in royal abodes.

By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be reckoned the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time; Having deemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the payment of reward.read more.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the king's wrath: for, as seeing the invisible, he was strong.

And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Thou son of man, lift up a lamentation for Tyre; And say to Tyre, Thou dwelling at the entrance of the sea, a traffic of the peoples for many islands, thus said the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, thou saidst, I am perfect of beauty.read more.
In the heart of the see thy bound; they building thee completed thy beauty. They built all thy bounds cypress from Shenir: they took cedars from Lebanon to make a mast for thee. The oaks of Bashan they made thine oars; the house of the Ashurites made thy desk of ivory from the isles of Chittim. Fine linen with variegation from Egypt was thy spreading forth to be to thee for a signal; cerulean purple, and reddish purple, from the isles of Elisha was thy covering. The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were rowers to thee: thy wise, O Tyre, were in thee, they thy sailors. The old men of Gebal and her wise were in thee making strong thy breach: all the ships of the sea and thy seamen were in thee to traffic from thy traffic. Persia and Lud and Phut were in thy strength, thy men of war: hung the shield and helmet in thee; they gave thy decoration. The sons of Arvad and thine army upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hung their shields upon thy walls round about; they completed thy beauty. Tarshish thy merchant from the multitude of all riches: in silver, iron, alloy, and lead, they gave thy markets. Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they thy merchants: they gave from thy traffic in the soul of man, and vessels of brass. From the house of Togarmah, horses and horsemen and mules they gave thy markets The sons of Dedan thy merchants; many isles the traffic of thy hand: and they brought back horns of ivory and ebony. Aram thy merchant from the multitude of thy works: they gave in thy markets with the gem, reddish purple, and variegation, and byssus, and red corals, and ruby. Judah and the land of Israel, they thy merchants: in wheat of Minnith and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balsam, they gave thy traffic. Damascus thy merchant in the multitude of thy works from the multitude of all riches, with wine of Helbon and wool of whiteness. And Dan and Javan going away gave in thy markets: making iron, cassia and sweet cane was in thy traffic. Dedan thy merchant, garments of spreading out for the chariot Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they the merchants of thy hand with lambs and rams and he goats: in them thy merchants. The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they thy merchants with the head of all spicery, and with every precious stone and gold they gave thy markets. Haran and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad, thy merchants. They thy merchants in perfections in coverings of cerulean purple, and variegation and in treasures of variegated stuffs bound with cords and made fast in thy markets. The ships of Tarshish celebrating thee in thy traffic; and thou wilt be filled and honored greatly in the heart of the sea. Thy rower brought thee into many waters: the wind of the east broke thee in the heart of the seas. Thy riches and thy markets, thy traffic, thy seamen, and thy shipmen, they making strong thy breach, and they trafficking thy traffic, and all the men of thy war that are in thee, and in all thy convocation which is in the midst of thee, they shall fall into the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall.

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came. Pass through Calneh, and see; and go ye from thence to Hamath the great: and go down to the wine-press of the rovers: are they good above these kingdoms? or their bound great above your bound? Extending to the evil day, and ye will bring near the seat of violence;read more.
Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall. Prating upon the mouth of the lyre, as David they invented to them instruments of music; Drinking wine in vases, and they will anoint with the chief of ointments: and they were not grieved for the breaking of Joseph. For this now shall they be carried away captive with the head of those carried away captive, and the shouting a those poured forth was removed.

In the third year to his reign he made a drinking to all his chiefs and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and chiefs of the provinces before him: In his causing to see the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the honor of his great splendor many days, eighty and one hundred days. And in these days being completed the king made to all the people being found in Shushan the fortress, a drinking to the great and even to the small, seven days, in the enclosure of the garden of the king's house;read more.
Splendid fine white linen, and cerulean purple, made fast with cords of byssus and purple, upon rings of silver and pillars of marble: couches of gold and silver upon a tesselated pavement of marble, and marble and pearl and spotted marble. And giving drink in vessels of gold and vessels different from vessels, and wine of the kingdom, an abundance, according to the hand of the king. Giving to drink according to the edict; none compelling, for thus the king appointed to all the multitude of his house to do according to the desire of man and man. Also Vashti the queen made a drinking to the women of the house of the kingdom which was to king Ahasuerus. In the seventh day, as the heart of the king being good with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs serving the face of king Ahasuerus, To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown of the kingdom, to cause the people and the chiefs to see her beauty: for she was good of appearance.

Standing from far off for fear of her torture, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment came. And the wholesale merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for their cargo will none purchase more: The cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all fir wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of precious wood, and of iron, and brass, and marble,read more.
And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men,

And Achan will answer Joshua and will say, Truly, I sinned against Jehovah the God of Israel, and according to this, and according to this I did.

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

Wo! to the city of bloods: all of it was filled with falsehood, with violence; the prey will not withdraw. The voice of the whip and the voice of the shaking of the wheel, and the horse moving swiftly, and the chariot bounding. The horsemen also lifting up the flame of the sword, and the lightning of the spear: and a multitude of wounded, and the heavy carcass; and no end to the corpses; they shall stumble upon their dead bodies.read more.
From the multitude of the fornications of the fair harlot, the beauty of the mistress of sorceries, selling the nations by her fornication, and families by her sorceries Behold me against thee, says Jehovah of armies; and I uncovered thy skirts upon thy face, and I caused nations to see thy nakedness, and kingdoms thy shame. And I cast abominable things upon thee, and I disgraced thee, and I set thee as a sight And it was all serving thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh was laid waste: who shall be moved for her? from whom shall I seek those consoling to thee? Wilt thou be good above No, the builder dwelling among the rivers, the waters round about to her, whose strength the sea, from the sea her wall? Cush her strength, and Egypt, and no end; Put and Lubim were among thy helpers. Also she being carried away captive went into captivity: also her young children shall be dashed in pieces at the head of every street, and upon her honored ones they cast the lot, and all her great ones were bound in chains. And thou shalt be intoxicated, and thou shalt be hid; thou shalt seek a fortifiedplace from the enemy. All thy fortresses, fig trees with the early figs: if they shall be shaken, and they fell into the mouth of him eating Behold, thy people women in the midst of thee: the gates of thy land being opened were opened to thine enemies: a fire devoured thy bars. Draw the water of the siege to thee, strengthen thy fortresses go into clay, tread upon the clay, hold fast from the brick. There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee as the feeder: make thee numerous as the feeder, make thee numerous as the locust Thou didst multiply thy traffics above the stars of the heavens: the feeder spread out and it will fly away. Thy devoted ones as the locust, and thy satraps as the locust of locusts encamping in the walls in a cold day; the sun arose and they fled away, and where his place he knew not Thy shepherds slumbered, O king of Assur: thy chiefs will lie down: thy people breathed upon the mountains, and none gathering. No healing to thy breaking; thy blow sickly: all hearing thy report shall clap the hand upon thee: for upon whom did not thine evil pass continually?

And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling. For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month.read more.
For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;