7 Bible Verses about Wantonness
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But when this son of yours arrives, who has eaten up your property with immoral women, you have killed for him the fattening calf.'
Here on earth you have lived in luxury and self-indulgence; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.
cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones, fine linen, silk, and scarlet, all kinds of citron wood, all kinds of goods in ivory and costly woods, bronze, iron, and marble,
For by uttering arrogant nonsense, through base desires of the lower nature, they entice into immorality men who are just escaping from those who live in error,
Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation.
for in their recklessness they have abandoned themselves to sensuality which leads to excessive practices of all sorts of immorality.
From Thematic Bible
Wantonness » Not walking in wantonness
Let us live becomingly for people who are in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, nor in sexual immorality and licentiousness, nor in quarreling and jealousy.
Worldly » Pleasure results of a pleasure-seeking life » Wantonness
For by uttering arrogant nonsense, through base desires of the lower nature, they entice into immorality men who are just escaping from those who live in error,
Here on earth you have lived in luxury and self-indulgence; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.
But when this son of yours arrives, who has eaten up your property with immoral women, you have killed for him the fattening calf.'