3 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, What doth this babbler mean to say? and others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of foreign gods; because he brought the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.

There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day.

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and went abroad into a far country; and there wasted his substance in riotous living.

But as soon as this thy son came, who devoured thy living with harlots, thou didst kill for him the fatted calf.

For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they allure in the lusts of the flesh, by dissolute ways, such as were in some measure escaping from those who live in error;

Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and have been given to pleasure; ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter.

But as soon as this thy son came, who devoured thy living with harlots, thou didst kill for him the fatted calf.

betrayers, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and have been given to pleasure; ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter.

but she that giveth herself up to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness. Counting it pleasure to riot in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceits while they feast with you,

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

And those seeds which fell among the thorns, these are they who, when they have heard, go away and are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.