3 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some said, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,"because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

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

Not many days after, the younger son gathered together all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!'

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity, they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!'

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

suffering wrong for their wrongdoing. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you.

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 the ones that fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.