47 Bible Verses about Self Indulgence

among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.

For such are not servants to our Lord Jesus Christ, but to their own belly; and by smooth speeches and flattering commendations deceive the hearts of the guileless.

For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared.

Uttering pompous discourses of inanity, ensnaring by the lusts of the flesh, by lascivious impurities, those who had truly escaped from such as live in a course of delusion. Preaching liberty to them, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whatever a man is overcome, by that also he is enslaved.

For every thing which is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pomp of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical. For where envy and contention dwell, there is tumult and every vile deed.

idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies,

but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel.

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members? Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain [your object]; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not. Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness,

Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them also committed, and in one day fell twenty-three thousand.

and lest when I come to you again, my God should bow me down, and I should lament over many who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurities, and whoredom, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable of sin; ensnaring souls of no stability; having a heart practised in all the wiles of covetousness; children for a curse:

Your gold and silver is cankered with rust; and the rust upon them is a testimony against you, and shall eat into your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasures in the last days. Behold, the wages of the workmen who have mowed down your fields, which is kept back by you from them, crieth out: and the loud moans of the reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have gormandized upon the earth, and lived in every luxury: ye have pampered your hearts, as in a day of feasting on the victim slain.

whose mouths ought to be muzzled, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

who insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable avidity.

For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature; and likewise the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lewdness one towards another; men with men committing indecency, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their delusion, which was meet. And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming;read more.
replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents, unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful:

BUT this know, that in the last days distressing times will come. For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,read more.
treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;

And he said, I will do this; I will take down my barns, and build them larger, and collect there all my crops, and my good things! And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast a multitude of good things in store for many years, be at ease, eat, drink, and be merry! But God said to him, Thou fool! this night shall they demand thy life from thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?read more.
Just such is every one who heapeth up treasure for self, and is not rich towards God.

And not many days after, the younger son, collecting his all, travelled into a far distant country, and there dissipated his substance in a life of debauchery. But when he had spent all, there came a terrible famine in that region; and he began to know want. And he went and connected himself with one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.read more.
And he eagerly longed to fill his belly with the charob berries which the swine did eat: and no person gave him [a morsel].

But she who lives voluptuously is dead, though she liveth.

But to those who are of a contentious spirit, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath;

whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast a multitude of good things in store for many years, be at ease, eat, drink, and be merry! But God said to him, Thou fool! this night shall they demand thy life from thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and of the dish, but within they are full of rapacity and intemperance.

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

eat not, nor talk, nor touch, (all which things tend to corruption by abuse) according to the injunctions and doctrines of men? Which things indeed hold forth an appearance of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and bodily mortification, [though] not of any value, [but] a gratification to the flesh.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to gratify its passions.

But they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and irregular appetites.

For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men, instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day;

For they who are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:

that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom; that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air: but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.

But the end of all things is near: be ye therefore sober-minded, and vigilant in prayers.

and with intelligence moderation; and with moderation patience; and with patience piety;

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:

but I say unto you, That every one who looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. If then thine eye, the right, leads thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is highly for thy advantage, that one of thy members be destroyed, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;

For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let no man seek his own gratification, but every one another's good.

Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves. Let not each aim at their own particular interests, but every man at those of others.

Then Zaccheus standing up, said unto the Lord, Behold, the half of my goods, Lord, I give unto the poor; and if I have got any thing from any man, by laying false informations, I am ready to restore fourfold.