TOPICAL BIBLE
Worldliness
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Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.Job 21:14And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?Psalm 49:16Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased:Psalm 49:17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.Psalm 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself),Psalm 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.Psalm 73:3For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.Psalm 73:4For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.Psalm 73:5They are not in trouble as other men; Neither are they plagued like other men.Psalm 73:6Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.Psalm 73:7Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.Psalm 73:8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.Psalm 73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.Psalm 73:10Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full cup are drained by them.Psalm 73:11And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?Psalm 73:12Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.Psalm 73:13Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;Psalm 73:14For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.Psalm 73:15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.Psalm 73:16When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;Psalm 73:17Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.Psalm 73:18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.Psalm 73:19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.Psalm 73:20As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.Psalm 73:21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:Psalm 73:22So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.Psalm 78:18And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.Psalm 78:29So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.Psalm 78:30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,Psalm 78:31When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.Proverbs 15:21Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding maketh straight his going.Proverbs 21:17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.Proverbs 23:20Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.Proverbs 27:1Boast not thyself of to-morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.Proverbs 27:7The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it?Ecclesiastes 2:3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.Ecclesiastes 2:4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;Ecclesiastes 2:5I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;Ecclesiastes 2:6I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;Ecclesiastes 2:7I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts.Ecclesiastes 2:9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been done long ago.Ecclesiastes 6:11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?Ecclesiastes 8:15Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),Ecclesiastes 8:17then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.Ecclesiastes 10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things.Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.