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Proverbs 21:17

WEB

17He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

KJV

17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

BSB

17He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

FBV

17If you love pleasure you'll become poor; if you love wine and olive oil[+] you won't ever be rich.

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Extra References

Proverbs 23:21

21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.


1 Timothy 5:6

6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.


2 Timothy 3:4

4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,


Proverbs 5:10-11

10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house. 11You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,


Luke 16:24-25

24He 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 in anguish in this flame.’

25But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.


Proverbs 21:20

20There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man swallows it up.


Luke 15:13-16

13Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. 14When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. 15He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.