3 Bible Verses about Pleasure, Worldly

If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."

And some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were encountering him. And some said, "What would this babbler wish to say?" And others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods;" because he proclaimed the good tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.

"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day.

And, not many days after, gathering all things together, the younger son went abroad into a far country, and there wasted his estate, living riotously.

But, when your son??his one who devoured your living with harlots??ame, you killed for him the fatted calf!'

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;

Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

But, when your son??his one who devoured your living with harlots??ame, you killed for him the fatted calf!'

traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

But she who lives in pleasure, though living, has died.

suffering evil as wages of unrighteousness; accounting revelry in the daytime a pleasure; spots and blemishes; reveling in their deceivings, while feasting with you;

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.'

"And that which fell among the thorns, these are those who heard; and, going forth, they are choked with anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, and bear no fruit to perfection.