7 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore consider and behold goodness; this also is vanity.

who lie on beds of ivory, and those sprawling on their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if the dead are not raised? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

And certain philosophers from the Epicureans and from the Stoics met him. And some said, What will this babbler say? And others said, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them).

Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it was from the hand of God.

who lie on beds of ivory, and those sprawling on their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

There was a certain rich man who was customarily clothed in purple and fine linen and making merry in luxury every day.

And when these days had expired, the king made a feast to all the people who were present in Shushan the palace, both to great and small, for seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace. White, green, and blue hangings were fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble. The beds were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red and white, and pearl, and black marble.

And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, the vessels being different from one another, and royal wine in abundance, according to the hand of the king.

And Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal, ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fattened fowl.

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph!

And not many days afterward, the younger son gathered all together and went away into a far country. And there he wasted his property, living dissolutely.

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf.

Also he who is slack in his work is brother to a great destroyer.

A desirable treasure and oil are in the home of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;

You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father; but a companion of harlots wastes wealth.

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf.

traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

But she who lives in self-pleasure has died while living.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

Now then hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I am, and none else is; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children. But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come on you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great power of your enchantments.

being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence as pleasure in the daytime, and reveling in spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits,

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat drink and be merry.

And those which fell among thorns are the ones who, when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of life, and do not bear to maturity.