13 Bible Verses about Perils Of Luxury

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened.

If I set gold my hope, and said to gold, My trust; If I shall rejoice because of the Multitude of my riches, and because my hand found much;

He trusting in his riches himself shall fall: and the just shall flourish as the foliage.

To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;

And Jeshurun will be fat and will tread down: Thou wert fat, thou wert thick, thou wert covered; And he will reject God having made him, And he will despise the Rock of his deliverance.

And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:

Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.

For not strength forever, and not consecration to generation and generation.

And howlers cried out in its palaces, and great serpents in the temples of delight: and her time draws near to come, and her days shall not be protracted.

Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you. Your riches have become corrupted, and your garments have been moth eaten; Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days.

As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief. Therefore in one day shall her blows come, death, and grief, and famine; and she shall be burned down in fire: for strong the Lord God judging her. And weep for her, and lament over her, shall the kings of the earth having been debauched with her, and having led an insolent life, when they see the smoke of her burning,