and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who consider it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their own deceptions while they feast with you,

having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; accursed children.

For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

So they ate and were abundantly satisfied, for He gave them their own desire.

the wrath of God came upon them, and killed the fattest of them, and struck down the choice men of Israel.

His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

They say, Come, let us get wine and binge on strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today; much more abundant.

As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;

Is it a small thing for you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to have drunk of the clear waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet?

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?

But if that servant says in his heart, My master is delaying his coming, and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with giddiness, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and who glory in their shame; who set their mind on earthly things.

Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

A man boasting himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.

These are wells without water, clouds being driven by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not wither, and all that he does shall prosper.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass; and wither as the green herb.

And when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, Let fruit no longer grow on you forever. And immediately the fig tree dried up.

And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How quickly the fig tree has dried up.

But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.

And Peter, remembering, said to Him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which You cursed has withered away.

Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away because it lacked moisture.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is dried up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

For it is impossible for those who at one time were given understanding, and have tasted the Heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and also turn aside, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and expose Him to public disgrace.

but if it bears thorns and briars, it is unfit and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned up.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, the ones who have actually escaped from those living in error.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the full true knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the end is worse for them than the beginning.

then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out from before My face, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots, cut off its fruit, and leave it to wither? All of its sprouting leaves will wither, and no great power or many people will be needed to pluck it up by its roots.

But He answered and said, Every plant which My Heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.