7 Bible Verses about Wantonness

But when this son of yours came [home], after having squandered all you gave him on prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'

You people have basked in luxury [here] on earth and lived lives devoted to pleasure. You have fattened yourselves [as sacrificial oxen] for the day of slaughter.

goods made of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, expensive linen, purple [cloth], silk and scarlet [cloth]. [No one buys their] scented wood products, their articles made from ivory and expensive woods [i.e., furniture], their articles of brass, iron and marble.

But the widow who devotes herself to unrestrained pleasure is [spiritually] dead, even while still living.

[Although] their talk is big, what they say is worthless, and by [offering people] fleshly desires [i.e., sexual gratification], they lead people astray, who are barely escaping from the error of the world.

And a few days later, this younger son gathered everything together and traveled to a distant country where he squandered his possessions in wild living.

They have stopped caring [i.e., about morality], so God has abandoned them to lives of unrestrained indecency and to engage in all kinds of [moral] impurity, with a constant desire for more.