TOPICAL BIBLE
Worldliness
275 references in this topic.
Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’Psalm 49:16Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.Psalm 49:17For when he dies 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 you when you do well for yourself—Psalm 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.Psalm 73:3For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.Psalm 73:4For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.Psalm 73:5They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.Psalm 73:6Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.Psalm 73:7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.Psalm 73:8They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.Psalm 73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.Psalm 73:10Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.Psalm 73:11They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”Psalm 73:12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.Psalm 73:13Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,Psalm 73:14For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.Psalm 73:15If I had said, “I will speak thus;” behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.Psalm 73:16When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;Psalm 73:17Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.Psalm 73:18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.Psalm 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.Psalm 73:20As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.Psalm 73:21For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.Psalm 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.Psalm 78:18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.Psalm 78:29So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.Psalm 78:30They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,Psalm 78:31when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.Proverbs 15:21Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.Proverbs 21:17He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.Proverbs 23:20Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:Proverbs 23:21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.Proverbs 27:1Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring forth.Proverbs 27:7A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”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 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 2:4I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.Ecclesiastes 2:5I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.Ecclesiastes 2:6I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.Ecclesiastes 2:7I 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 2:8I 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 2:9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10Whatever 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.Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:12I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.Ecclesiastes 6:11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?Ecclesiastes 8:15Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),Ecclesiastes 8:17then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.Ecclesiastes 10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.