3 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.

Not many days later, the younger son sold off everything and went abroad to a distant land, where he squandered his means in loose living.

But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;

But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'

they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God ??5 for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;

whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.