TOPICAL BIBLE
Worldliness
275 references in this topic.
Job 21:13They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.Job 21:14And they say to God, ‘Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.Job 21:15What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?’Psalm 49:16Fear not, when one maketh wealth, When the honour of his house is abundant,Psalm 49:17For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.Psalm 49:18For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)Psalm 73:2As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,Psalm 73:3The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,Psalm 73:4And their might is firm.Psalm 73:5In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.Psalm 73:6Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.Psalm 73:7Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;Psalm 73:8They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.Psalm 73:9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.Psalm 73:10Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.Psalm 73:11And they have said, ‘How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?’Psalm 73:12Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.Psalm 73:13Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,Psalm 73:14And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.Psalm 73:15If I have said, ‘I recount thus,’ Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.Psalm 73:16And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,Psalm 73:17Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.Psalm 73:18Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.Psalm 73:19How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors.Psalm 73:20As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.Psalm 73:21For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,Psalm 73:22And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.Psalm 78:18And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.Psalm 78:29And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them.Psalm 78:30They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth,Psalm 78:31And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.Proverbs 14:12There is a way—right before a man, And its latter end are ways of death.Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.Proverbs 15:21Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth his going.Proverbs 21:17Whoso is loving mirth is a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.Proverbs 23:20Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,Proverbs 23:21For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.Proverbs 27:1Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.Proverbs 27:7A satiated soul treadeth down a honeycomb, And to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.Ecclesiastes 1:8All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart, ‘Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;’ and lo, even it is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:2Of laughter I said, ‘Foolish!’ and of mirth, ‘What is this it is doing?’Ecclesiastes 2:3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where is this—the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.Ecclesiastes 2:4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.Ecclesiastes 2:5I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.Ecclesiastes 2:6I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.Ecclesiastes 2:7I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance—herd and flock—above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man—a wife and wives.Ecclesiastes 2:9And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,Ecclesiastes 2:11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!Ecclesiastes 2:12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already—they have done it!Ecclesiastes 6:11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?Ecclesiastes 8:15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.Ecclesiastes 8:16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),Ecclesiastes 8:17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.Ecclesiastes 10:19For mirth they are making a feast, And wine maketh life joyful, And the silver answereth with all.Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.Ecclesiastes 11:10And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age are vanity!