Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
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Cross references
- Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
- 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,