Proverbs 21:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want; whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich.

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The wicked is a ransom for the righteous and the faithless for the upright.

Precious treasure remains in the house of the wise, but the fool devours it.

Do not be among winebibbers or among gluttonous eaters of meat,

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

but the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,