Extravagance

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningProverbs 21:17Proverbs 21:20Luke 16:19
• See Gluttony

The passages, in Bible order (3)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Proverbs 21:17

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

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 21:171 voice

   “Wine and oil - i. e., The costly adjuncts of a princely banquet. The price of oil or precious unguent was about equal to the 300 days’ wages of a field laborer Mat 20:2. Indulgence in such a luxury would thus become the type of all extravagance and excess.

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2. Proverbs 21:20

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

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 21:201 voice

   “Spendeth it up - literally, swalloweth it. The wise man keeps a store in reserve. He gains uprightly, spends moderately, never exhausts himself. But the proverb may have also a higher application. The wise man stores up all “treasure to be desired” of wisdom, all “oil” of divine influence, which strengthens and refreshes, and so is ready at all times for the work to which the Master calls him. Compare Mat 25:1-13.

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3. Luke 16:19

   Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

   ›Commentary on Luke 16:192 voices

   The parable we have now read, in one respect stands alone in the Bible. It is the only passage of Scripture which describes the feelings of the unconverted after death. For this reason, as well as for many others, the parable deserves especial attention. We learn, firstly, from this parable — that a man's worldly condition is no test of his state in the sight of God. The Lord Jesus describes to us two men — of whom one was very rich, and the other very poor. The one "fared sumptuously every day."

   Now, He has not merely related to us a story respecting a poor man and a rich one; but He has taught us, in the first place, that no one should lead a luxurious life, nor, living in worldly pleasures and perpetual feastings, should be the slave of his lusts, and forget God. "For there was," He says, "a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and delighted himself with splendid feasts."

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