Verse 17

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

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  • Prov 23:21 : 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
  • Prov 21:20 : 20 There is desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spends it up.
  • Prov 5:10-11 : 10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger; 11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
  • Luke 15:13-16 : 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything.
  • Luke 16:24-25 : 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;