Quotes about Excess
For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
- Isaiah 28:8
So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be queen.
- Ezekiel 16:13
You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
- Ezekiel 23:41
You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
- Ezekiel 39:18
At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk.
- Ezekiel 39:19
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
- Hosea 4:11
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
- Joel 1:5
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
- Amos 6:4
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
- Amos 6:6
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
- Habakkuk 2:15
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:7
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
- James 5:5