Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
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Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
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Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
Psalms 91:14
“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Psalms 119:36
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
Ecclesiastes 2:10
Whatever 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 2:19
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, 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.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
1 Timothy 6:8
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
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1 Kings 10:17
He made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings 14:26
and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 9:15
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one large shield.
2 Chronicles 9:16
He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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Job 31:24
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
Luke 8:18
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
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Job 39:27
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
Psalms 103:5
who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
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Psalms 55:23
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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Proverbs 23:35
“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”
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Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
1 Corinthians 7:30
and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
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John 2:5
His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
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