TOPICAL BIBLE
Worldliness
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Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.Isaiah 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.Isaiah 24:8The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.Isaiah 24:9They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.Isaiah 24:10The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.Isaiah 24:11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.Isaiah 28:4The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.Isaiah 32:9Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.Isaiah 32:10In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.Isaiah 32:11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.Isaiah 47:7You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.Isaiah 47:8So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’Isaiah 47:9These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.Hosea 9:1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.Hosea 9:11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.Amos 6:3You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.Amos 6:4You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.Amos 6:6You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.Amos 6:7Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.Micah 2:10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!Micah 6:14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?Matthew 6:26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Matthew 6:27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?Matthew 6:28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.Matthew 6:29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.Matthew 6:30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?Matthew 6:31Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’Matthew 6:32For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.Matthew 6:34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.Matthew 10:39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.Matthew 13:22The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.Matthew 14:6On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased HerodMatthew 14:7so much that he promised with an oath to give to her whatever she asked.Matthew 16:25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?Matthew 18:1At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”Matthew 18:2Jesus invited a little child to stand among them.Matthew 18:3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 18:4Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 22:2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.Matthew 22:3He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.Matthew 22:4Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’Matthew 22:5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.Matthew 22:6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.Matthew 24:38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.Matthew 24:39And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.Mark 4:19but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.Mark 8:36What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?Mark 8:37Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?Mark 9:33Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was in the house, He asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”Mark 9:34But they were silent, for on the way they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest.Mark 9:35Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all.”