Bible Verses About The Happiness of the Wicked: Illustrated

And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?

and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare--to whom shall they be?

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,

and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

`And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham--and the rich man also died, and was buried;

and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

`And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive--thou--thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;