7 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it is vanity.

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,

if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,

And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

And at the fulness of these days hath the king made to all the people who are found in Shushan the palace, from great even unto small, a banquet, seven days, in the court of the garden of the house of the king -- white linen, white cotton, and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on rings of silver, and pillars of marble, couches of gold, and of silver, on a pavement of smaragdus, and white marble, and mother-of-pearl, and black marble --

and the giving of drink in vessels of gold, and the vessels are divers vessels, and the royal wine is abundant, as a memorial of the king.

And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal; ten fat oxen, and twenty feeding oxen, and a hundred sheep, apart from hart, and roe, and fallow-deer, and fatted beasts of the stalls,

Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he is to a destroyer.

A treasure to be desired, and oil, Is in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.

but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;

Whoso is loving mirth is a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting confidently -- Who is saying in her heart, 'I am, and none else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.' And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.

about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

'And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.