EPICUREANS

Passages on this topic · 14

• Ecclesiastes 2:1

  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 2:2

  I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

• Ecclesiastes 2:3

  I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

• Ecclesiastes 2:4

  I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

• Ecclesiastes 2:5

  I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

• Ecclesiastes 2:7

  I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;

• Ecclesiastes 2:8

  I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men — musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

• Ecclesiastes 2:9

  So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

• Ecclesiastes 2:10

  Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

• Matthew 11:18

  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

• Luke 7:33

  For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

• Acts 17:18

  Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

• 1 Corinthians 15:32

  If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”