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Ecclesiastes 2:10
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

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Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

Daniel 4:30
The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

Luke 17:28
In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

Luke 17:29
But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

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Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

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Deuteronomy 8:7
For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

Deuteronomy 8:8
A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

Deuteronomy 8:9
Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

Deuteronomy 8:10
And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

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Deuteronomy 12:7
There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

Deuteronomy 12:18
But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

Deuteronomy 26:10
So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:

Deuteronomy 26:11
And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.

Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;

Psalms 128:2
You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

Ecclesiastes 3:12
I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

Ecclesiastes 5:20
He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:7
Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

Ecclesiastes 9:8
Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

1 Timothy 4:4
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

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Judges 14:2
And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.

2 Samuel 11:2
Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 11:3
And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?

2 Samuel 11:4
And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.

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1 Kings 4:21
And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

1 Kings 4:22
And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

1 Kings 4:23
Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

1 Kings 4:24
For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.

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1 Kings 9:11
(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

2 Chronicles 7:11
So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

2 Chronicles 8:6
And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

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Job 28:18
There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.

Psalms 4:6
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Psalms 4:7
Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

Psalms 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

Ecclesiastes 12:8
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.

Matthew 13:45
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a trader searching for beautiful jewels.

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Psalms 127:2
It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

Proverbs 15:16
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

Proverbs 16:9
A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.

Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

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Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:18
Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16
Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

Ecclesiastes 3:19
Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

Ecclesiastes 9:6
Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:8
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

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Judges 18:10
When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.

Job 21:9
Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.

Job 21:10
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

Job 21:11
They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,

Job 21:12
They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.

Job 21:13
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

Psalms 17:14
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

Psalms 73:7
Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

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2 Samuel 5:11
And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

1 Kings 7:1
Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

1 Kings 7:2
And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

1 Kings 7:3
And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

1 Kings 7:4
There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.

1 Kings 7:5
And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.

1 Kings 7:6
And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and...with steps before it.

1 Kings 7:7
Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

1 Kings 7:8
And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

1 Kings 7:9
All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

1 Kings 7:10
And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

1 Kings 7:11
Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

1 Kings 7:12
The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

Jeremiah 22:14
Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

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Jeremiah 52:34
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

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Mark 8:34
And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.

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Psalms 14:5
Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

Psalms 73:6
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

Proverbs 5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

Ecclesiastes 7:5
It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.

Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

1 John 2:15
Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Revelation 18:7
As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.

Revelation 18:8
For this reason in one day will her troubles come, death and sorrow and need of food; and she will be completely burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who is her judge.

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Psalms 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

Romans 12:11
Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

Romans 12:12
Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

Philippians 4:4
Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.

Philippians 4:5
Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.

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