3 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

If, to speak as a man, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him; and some said: What can this babbler possibly wish to say? Others said: He seems to be a proclaimer of strange demons: for he preached to them 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, taking with him all that was his, left home for a distant country, and there wasted his property in riotous living.

But as soon as this your son has come, Who has eaten up your estate with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.

For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

But as soon as this your son has come, Who has eaten up your estate with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.

traitors, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.

You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

But she that lives voluptuously, is dead while she lives.

and receive the reward of unrighteousness. Counting it a pleasure to riot in the day-time, they are spots and stains, rioting in their delusions, while feasting with you;

and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.

That which fell among thorns are those who hear, and so conduct them selves, that they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.