Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and ma
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of you
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly th
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wi
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine
traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart s
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyar
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, dr
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no in
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper—
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will upro
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealt
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuou
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?