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Ephesians 5:4
And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

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Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

Leviticus 15:5
And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:18
And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.

Psalms 10:3
For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

Zechariah 8:16
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

Luke 16:13
No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

2 Corinthians 7:1
Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

Ephesians 5:21
Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.

Colossians 3:22
Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

Hebrews 13:5
Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

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2 Samuel 18:22
Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said to Joab again, Whatever may come of it, let me go after the Cushite. And Joab said, Why have you a desire to go, my son, seeing that you will get no reward for your news?

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1 Chronicles 7:23
After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

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1 Chronicles 29:20
And David said to all the people, Now give praise to the Lord your God. And all the people gave praise to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with bent heads worshipping the Lord and the king.

Psalms 33:1
Be glad in the Lord, O doers of righteousness; for praise is beautiful for the upright.

Psalms 79:13
So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

Psalms 92:1
A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;

Psalms 116:7
Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.

Daniel 2:23
I give you praise and worship, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and strength, and have now made clear to me what we were requesting from you: for you have given us knowledge of the king's business.

Daniel 6:10
And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.

1 Corinthians 15:57
But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:11
You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.

2 Corinthians 2:14
But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

2 Corinthians 8:16
But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.

James 5:13
Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.

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Job 29:24
I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

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Psalms 16:9
Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.

Psalms 30:12
So that my glory may make songs of praise to you and not be quiet. O Lord my God, I will give you praise for ever.

Psalms 57:8
You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.

Acts 2:26
And for this cause my heart was glad and my tongue full of joy, and my flesh will be resting in hope:

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Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

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Psalms 22:7
I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

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Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Psalms 34:1
Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went. I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

Isaiah 63:7
I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.

Acts 5:41
So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

1 Corinthians 1:4
I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;

Philippians 1:3
I give praise to my God at every memory of you,

Colossians 1:3
We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,

Colossians 1:11
Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

2 Thessalonians 1:3
It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;

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Psalms 40:8
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

Psalms 71:16
I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

Psalms 119:11
I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

Proverbs 8:6
Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.

Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

Proverbs 22:17
Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

Proverbs 22:18
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

Proverbs 23:16
And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

Luke 6:45
The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

John 7:38
He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

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Proverbs 10:23
It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

Proverbs 14:9
In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.

Proverbs 15:21
Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

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Psalms 37:30
The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.

Psalms 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart; he will never make a false step.

Psalms 40:9
I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

Psalms 40:10
Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

Psalms 45:2
You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

Psalms 71:15
My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

Psalms 71:17
O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

Psalms 71:18
Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

Proverbs 10:20
The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value.

Proverbs 12:18
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.

Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

Luke 4:22
And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

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Proverbs 12:23
A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

Proverbs 16:10
Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

Proverbs 21:26
All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

Ecclesiastes 10:13
The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.

Luke 14:1
And it came about that when he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath, to have a meal, they were watching him.

James 3:3
Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.

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Isaiah 9:17
For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

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Isaiah 28:17
And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

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Isaiah 60:1
Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

Isaiah 60:2
For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

Isaiah 60:3
And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.

1 Corinthians 12:7
But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.

Ephesians 5:13
But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.

Ephesians 5:14
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

Hebrews 10:25
Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.

2 Peter 1:19
And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

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Psalms 36:4
He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Isaiah 5:8
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

Isaiah 5:9
The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

Isaiah 5:20
Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

Isaiah 57:17
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

Micah 2:2
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

Micah 2:3
For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

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Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

Ezekiel 36:25
And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

Matthew 5:22
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.

Matthew 6:24
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

1 Corinthians 5:2
And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

1 Corinthians 13:6
It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;

Ephesians 4:17
This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

Ephesians 4:18
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

1 Timothy 5:13
And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.

2 Timothy 2:22
But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

1 Peter 2:11
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

Jude 1:10
But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

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Amos 3:8
The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

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Proverbs 10:9
He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

Matthew 5:13
You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.

Matthew 5:15
And a burning light is not put under a vessel, but on its table; so that its rays may be shining on all who are in the house.

Mark 4:21
And he said to them, When the light comes in, do people put it under a vessel, or under the bed, and not on its table?

Luke 8:16
No man, when the light is lighted, puts a cover over it, or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.

Luke 11:33
No man, when the light has been lighted, puts it in a secret place, or under a vessel, but on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.

Philippians 2:15
So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Philippians 2:16
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

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Deuteronomy 5:18
Do not be false to the married relation.

Job 31:1
I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

Matthew 15:20
These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

1 Corinthians 3:17
If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

1 Corinthians 6:18
Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

1 Corinthians 6:19
Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

1 Corinthians 6:20
For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

1 Thessalonians 4:3
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

1 Thessalonians 4:4
So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

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Isaiah 14:11
Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

Luke 12:16
And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

Luke 12:17
And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

Luke 12:18
And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

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.

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 12:21
So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

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Romans 8:28
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

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Romans 8:30
And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.

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Romans 6:6
Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

Romans 6:10
For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

Romans 12:16
Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.

Romans 15:5
Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus:

2 Corinthians 6:9
Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;

2 Corinthians 12:21
And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

Galatians 5:24
And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

Ephesians 4:1
I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

Ephesians 4:20
For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

Ephesians 6:21
But so that you may have knowledge of my business, and how I am, Tychicus, the well-loved brother and tested servant in the Lord, will give you news of all things:

Philippians 3:16
Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.

Jude 1:8
In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

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Matthew 23:17
You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

2 Corinthians 6:10
As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

Galatians 6:16
And on all who are guided by this rule be peace and mercy, and on the Israel of God.

Ephesians 1:18
And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

Ephesians 5:16
Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.

1 Timothy 2:1
My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;

1 Timothy 6:4
He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

Hebrews 12:16
And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

1 Peter 2:10
In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

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Psalms 14:3
They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Romans 6:9
Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

Colossians 2:6
As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

Colossians 3:9
Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

Titus 2:8
Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

2 Peter 2:13
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

2 Peter 2:19
Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

Jude 1:23
And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.

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Colossians 4:4
So that I may make it clear, as it is right for me to do.

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John 6:23
Some other boats, however, came from Tiberias near to the place where they had taken the bread after the Lord had given praise.

1 Timothy 4:3
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

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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Romans 6:21
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

Romans 6:23
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

Romans 8:1
For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

Romans 8:4
So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

Romans 8:5
For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

Galatians 6:8
Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

James 1:14
But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

James 1:15
Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

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Psalms 17:3
You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

Psalms 32:9
Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Psalms 39:1
To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Psalms 39:2
I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.

Proverbs 13:2
A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.

Proverbs 13:3
He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

James 1:26
If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

James 3:7
For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;

James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

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Proverbs 14:13
Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:2
Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?

Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

Ecclesiastes 7:6
Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

Luke 6:25
Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.

Luke 8:53
And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.

Luke 16:15
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

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Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

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Revelation 9:21
And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.

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