3 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

If after the manner of men I have fought with the wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

And certain ones of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers interviewed him, and some continued to say, What would this babbler wish to say? and others said, He seems to be the propagator of strange divinities: because he was preaching the gospel of Jesus, and the resurrection.

There was a certain rich man, and he was habitually clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day.

And not many days afterward the younger son gathering all together, departed into a far-off country; and there wasted his substance living riotously.

but when this thy son, the one devouring thy living with harlots came, thou hast slain for him the fatted calf.

For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;

Ye flourished upon the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter.

but when this thy son, the one devouring thy living with harlots came, thou hast slain for him the fatted calf.

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

For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;

Ye flourished upon the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter.

but she who is wanton is dead though living.

receiving the reward of unrighteousness, esteeming pleasure which is in the daytime; luxury; spots and blemishes, swelling in their deceits, feasting along with you,

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

And that which falleth among thorns, there are those who hear, and going forward, by the cares and riches and pleasures are choked out, and bring forth no fruit to perfection.