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Proverbs 21:17
Some of the results of a self-indulgent life are poverty, spiritual emptiness, and death. In I Timothy 5:6 "live in pleasure" is translated from the Greek word spatalao, describing a lifestyle of abandonment to one's desires for comfort and pleasure. It appears again only in James 5:5, as "luxury" or "wanton" (KJV).
Martin G. Collins
Overcoming (Part 8): Self-IndulgenceRelated Topics: Desire | Desire, Inordinate | Epicureanism | Hedonism | Hedonistic Lifestyles | Lust | Lust of the Eyes | Lust of the Flesh | Luxury | Pleasure | Pleasure, Carnal | Pleasure, Sensual | Pleasure, Worldly | Poverty | Self Indulgence | Spatalao | Spiritual Emptiness | WantonOther Forerunner Commentary entries containing Proverbs 21:17:
Genesis 28:16-18
Luke 15:11-16
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