Proverbs 21:17

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Proverbs 21:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

16 The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

17 He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

18 The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

19 Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

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Proverbs 21:20

Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:11

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

Luke 15:13

After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.

Luke 15:14

After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.

Luke 15:15

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

Luke 15:16

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Luke 16:24

So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’

Luke 16:25

But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,