Psalms 49:18

Psalms 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

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Genesis 8:21
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Psalms 35:15
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

1 Samuel 23:20
Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”

Jeremiah 5:30
“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

1 John 4:5
They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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1 Samuel 25:6
Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!

Esther 3:2
All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

Acts 12:20
Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

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Esther 5:10
Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; they shall certainly not be unpunished.

Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Daniel 5:21
He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

Daniel 5:22
“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Daniel 5:23
but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Daniel 5:24
Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

Daniel 5:25
“This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’

Daniel 5:26
“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.

Daniel 5:27
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

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Job 3:19
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

Job 21:30
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?

Job 21:31
Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?

Job 21:32
Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.

Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Luke 16:22
The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

James 1:11
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

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Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Psalms 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

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Psalms 2:11
Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psalms 49:1
Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

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Esther 5:11
Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Esther 8:1
On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

Esther 8:2
The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

Job 27:17
he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Psalms 52:5
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalms 52:6
The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

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Psalms 73:11
They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

Psalms 73:14
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

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Psalms 81:15
The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

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Proverbs 11:4
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Ecclesiastes 2:18
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

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 2:20
Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:14
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

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Psalms 4:6
Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Matthew 10:39
He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

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.

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Isaiah 1:10
Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.

Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

Amos 5:22
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

1 Peter 3:4
but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.

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Isaiah 5:22
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

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Psalms 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

Jeremiah 2:23
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

Jeremiah 2:34
Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.

Jeremiah 2:35
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

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Zechariah 11:5
Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

Zechariah 11:6
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver every one of the men into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”

Zechariah 11:7
So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

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Matthew 17:26
Peter said to him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Therefore the children are exempt.

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Luke 12:58
For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

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Acts 24:2
When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,

Acts 24:3
we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

Acts 24:4
But that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

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Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

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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Revelation 13:3
One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.

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Revelation 13:4
They worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

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