Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never become rich.
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Proverbs 21:20
Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.

Proverbs 5:10, 11
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner. . . .

Proverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

Luke 15:13-16
After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living. . . .

Luke 16:24, 25
So he cried out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.' . . .

1 Timothy 5:6
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

2 Timothy 3:4
traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
He who loves pleasure will become a poor man; He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The one who loves pleasure will become a poor man; whoever loves wine and oil will not get rich.

International Standard Version
Pleasure lovers become poor; loving wine and oil doesn't bring riches.

NET Bible
The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A man that is wanting and loves joy and wine and pleasure, will not be rich.
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