TOPICAL BIBLE
Worldliness
275 references in this topic.
Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.Job 21:14Therefore 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] will 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 foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.Psalm 73:4For [there are] no bands 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 compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.Psalm 73:7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.Psalm 73:8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.Psalm 73:9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.Psalm 73:10Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them.Psalm 73:11And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?Psalm 73:12Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.Psalm 73:13Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, 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 say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children.Psalm 73:16When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;Psalm 73:17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] understood I their end.Psalm 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.Psalm 73:19How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.Psalm 73:20As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.Psalm 73:21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.Psalm 73:22So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.Psalm 78:18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.Psalm 78:29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;Psalm 78:30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,Psalm 78:31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [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 that mirth [is] heaviness.Proverbs 15:21Folly [is] joy to [him that is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.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 riotous eaters of flesh:Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall 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 an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.Ecclesiastes 1:8All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?Ecclesiastes 2:3I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the 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 orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:Ecclesiastes 2:6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:Ecclesiastes 2:7I got [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] 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 in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, 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 already done.Ecclesiastes 6:11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] 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 merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied mine 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 a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; 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 merry: but 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 thine 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 childhood and youth [are] vanity.