Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
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Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
Genesis 6:2
God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
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.”
Job 31:1
“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Psalms 119:36
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
Psalms 119:37
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Matthew 4:9
He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”
Luke 4:5
The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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Genesis 13:6
The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
Genesis 36:6
Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
Genesis 36:7
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
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2 Samuel 3:34
Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.
1 Kings 1:21
Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
Job 4:13
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
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1 Chronicles 29:16
Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.
Isaiah 60:5
Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.
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Job 2:4
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Proverbs 15:6
In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:26
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
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Job 20:12
“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
Job 20:13
though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
Job 20:14
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
Job 20:16
He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
Job 20:17
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
Job 20:18
He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
Psalms 78:30
They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 78:31
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.
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Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed,
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Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
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Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
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.
Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
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Psalms 63:5
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Revelation 7:16
They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;
Revelation 7:17
for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
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Proverbs 11:28
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
Isaiah 2:7
Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.
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.
Matthew 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Luke 14:18
They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
Luke 18:25
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”
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Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
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.
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Ecclesiastes 5:6
Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
Ecclesiastes 7:28
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
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Isaiah 44:10
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
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Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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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;’
Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Ecclesiastes 4:7
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Ezekiel 7:19
They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Habakkuk 2:8
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Luke 12:17
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
Luke 12:18
He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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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2 Corinthians 8:15
As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”
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