3 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly
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As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.
Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.
For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.
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Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life
What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Luxurious living, examples of
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Prodigality, general references to
Not many days later, the younger son sold off everything and went abroad to a distant land, where he squandered his means in loose living.
But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Wantoness
By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).
You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;
But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Spiritual death
they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God ??5 for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.
For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.
You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Poverty
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » False security
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Desire for incessant revelry
done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Presumption
And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'
Pleasure, worldly » Results of a pleasure-seeking life » Spiritual barrenness
As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.