47 Bible Verses about Self Indulgence

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the feelings, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others:

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, rendered active within me every evil desire. For without the law, sin was dead.

For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own appetites; and, by good words and fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple.

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.

But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire, and is deluded.

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. While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac. For where envy and strife are, there is commotion, and every evil work.

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, anger, party-spirit, divisions, sects,

those preach Christ from a contentious disposition, not sincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members? You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness,

Nor let us be guilty of lewdness, as some of them were guilty, and fell, in one day, twenty-three thou sand.

lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn over many of those who have already sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness and lewdness and wantonness which they have committed.

having eyes that are full of the adulteress, and that can not cease from sin, deceiving unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, accursed children,

your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and their rust will be a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which has been unjustly withheld by you, cries out: and the cries of those who have reaped, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

whose mouths must be stopped: these subvert whole houses by teaching, for the sake of base gain, things which they ought not to teach.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.

For this reason, God delivered them over to vile passions: for their females exchanged their natural use for that which is against nature: and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lusts one toward another, males with males practicing infamous lewdness, and receiving in them selves the due reward of their error. And as they refused to acknowledge God, God delivered them up to an undiscerning mind, to do detestable things;read more.
as they were filled with all unrighteousness, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity; whisperers, evil-speakers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents; without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

But know this, that in the last days trying times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, revilers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, haters of those who are good,read more.
traitors, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and I will build larger ones; and there I will store ail my produce, and my good things; 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. But God said to him: Senseless man, this night shall your soul be required of you; and who shall have the things which you have provided?read more.
So is he that lays up treasure for him self, and is not rich toward God.

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. When he had spent all, there was a great famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want. And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.read more.
And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods which the swine did eat. And no one gave to him.

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

but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, anger and wrath,

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

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. But God said to him: Senseless man, this night shall your soul be required of you; and who shall have the things which you have provided?

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

Touch not, taste not, handle not, (all of which are for the destruction of those who use them,) according to the commandments and teachings of men; and these have a show of wisdom in will-worship and affected humility and neglect of the body, and in no regard for the gratification of the flesh.

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

Now those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared, teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age;

For those who are according to the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown. I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air; but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.

and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness;

Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

But I say to you, Whoever looks upon a woman to cherish desire for her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If, then, your right eye ensnare you, tear it out, and throw it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.

Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,

For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify. Let no one seek his own, but each the welfare of the other.

doing nothing in strife and vain glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Consider not each one his own gifts, but each one also the gifts of others.

And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken from any one by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.