Commentaries:
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-Indulgence
Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing James 5:5:
Proverbs 21:17
Luke 8:14
1 Timothy 5:6
Titus 3:3
James 5:5