WORLDLINESS

Passages on this topic · 276

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

• Genesis 25:31

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

• Genesis 25:32

  Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

• Genesis 25:33

  Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 25:34

  Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

• Genesis 27:36

  He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

• Genesis 30:39

  The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

• Genesis 30:41

  Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Genesis 30:43

  The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 37:26

  Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

• Genesis 37:27

  Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

• Numbers 11:33

  While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

• Numbers 11:34

  The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

• 1 Samuel 2:12

  Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 2:13

  The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;

• 1 Samuel 2:14

  and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

• 1 Samuel 2:15

  Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”

• 1 Samuel 2:16

  If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires”; then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

• 1 Samuel 2:17

  The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 8:19

  But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

• 1 Samuel 8:20

  that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

• 2 Kings 5:21

  So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

• 2 Kings 5:22

  He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’”

• 2 Kings 5:23

  Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

• 2 Kings 5:24

  When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.

• 2 Kings 5:25

  But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”

• 2 Kings 5:26

  He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

• 2 Kings 5:27

  Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

• Job 20:4

  Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

• Job 20:5

  that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

• Job 20:6

  Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

• Job 20:7

  yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’

• Job 20:8

  He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

• Job 20:9

  The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

• Job 20:10

  His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

• Job 20:11

  His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

• 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 20:15

  He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

• Job 20:16

  He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.

• Job 20:17

  He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

• Job 20:18

  That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

• Job 20:19

  For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

• Job 20:20

  “Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

• Job 20:21

  There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

• Job 20:22

  In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

• Job 20:23

  When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

• Job 20:24

  He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

• Job 20:25

  He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

• Job 20:26

  All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

• Job 20:27

  The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

• Job 20:28

  The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

• Job 20:29

  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

• Job 21:11

  They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

• Job 21:12

  They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

• Job 21:13

  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

• Job 21:14

  They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

• Job 21:15

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Psalms 49:16

  Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

• Psalms 49:17

  for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

• Psalms 49:18

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

• Psalms 73:2

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

• Psalms 73:3

  For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• Psalms 73:4

  For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

• Psalms 73:5

  They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

• Psalms 73:6

  Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

• Psalms 73:7

  Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

• Psalms 73:8

  They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

• Psalms 73:9

  They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

• Psalms 73:10

  Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

• Psalms 73:11

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

• Psalms 73:12

  Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

• 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.

• Psalms 73:15

  If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

• Psalms 73:16

  When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

• Psalms 73:17

  Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

• 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.

• Psalms 73:21

  For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

• Psalms 73:22

  I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

• Psalms 78:18

  They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

• Psalms 78:29

  So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

• 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 fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

• Proverbs 14:12

  There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

• Proverbs 14:13

  Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

• Proverbs 15:21

  Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

• Proverbs 21:17

  He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

• Proverbs 23:20

  Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

• Proverbs 23:21

  for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Proverbs 27:1

  Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

• Proverbs 27:7

  A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

• Ecclesiastes 1:8

  All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

• Ecclesiastes 2:1

  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 2:2

  I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

• Ecclesiastes 2:3

  I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

• 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 from it the forest where trees were reared.

• 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, and that 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 2:10

  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 2:11

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 2:12

  I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

• Ecclesiastes 6:11

  For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

• Ecclesiastes 6:12

  For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 8:15

  Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and 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 8:16

  When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

• Ecclesiastes 8:17

  then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

• Ecclesiastes 10:19

  A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

• 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.

• 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.

• Isaiah 22:12

  In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

• Isaiah 22:13

  and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

• Isaiah 24:7

  The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

• Isaiah 24:8

  The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

• Isaiah 24:9

  They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

• Isaiah 24:10

  The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

• Isaiah 24:11

  There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

• Isaiah 28:4

  The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

• Isaiah 32:9

  Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

• Isaiah 32:10

  For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won’t come.

• Isaiah 32:11

  Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

• Isaiah 47:7

  You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

• Isaiah 47:8

  “Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children.’

• Isaiah 47:9

  But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

• Hosea 9:1

  Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

• Hosea 9:11

  As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

• Hosea 9:13

  I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

• Amos 6:3

  Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

• Amos 6:4

  Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;

• Amos 6:5

  who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

• Amos 6:6

  who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

• Amos 6:7

  Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.

• Amos 8:10

  I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

• Micah 2:10

  Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

• Micah 6:14

  You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be within you. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

• 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?

• Matthew 6:27

  “Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

• Matthew 6:28

  Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

• Matthew 6:29

  yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

• Matthew 6:30

  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

• Matthew 6:31

  “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

• Matthew 6:32

  For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

• Matthew 6:33

  But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

• Matthew 6:34

  Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

• Matthew 10:39

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

• 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.

• Matthew 14:6

  But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

• Matthew 14:7

  Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

• Matthew 16:25

  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

• Matthew 16:26

  For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

• Matthew 18:1

  In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”

• Matthew 18:2

  Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,

• Matthew 18:3

  and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 18:4

  Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 22:2

  “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

• Matthew 22:3

  and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

• Matthew 22:4

  Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’

• Matthew 22:5

  But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

• Matthew 22:6

  and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

• Matthew 24:38

  For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

• Matthew 24:39

  and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

• Mark 4:19

  and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

• Mark 8:35

  For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

• Mark 8:36

  For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

• Mark 8:37

  For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

• Mark 9:33

  He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

• Mark 9:34

  But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

• Mark 9:35

  He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

• Mark 9:36

  He took a little child, and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

• Luke 8:14

  That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

• Luke 9:46

  There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

• Luke 9:47

  Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

• Luke 9:48

  and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”

• Luke 12:19

  I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’

• Luke 14:17

  He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’

• 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 14:19

  “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

• Luke 14:20

  “Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

• Luke 14:21

  “That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

• Luke 14:22

  “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’

• Luke 14:23

  “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

• Luke 14:24

  For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”

• Luke 16:1

  He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

• Luke 16:2

  He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

• Luke 16:3

  “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

• Luke 16:4

  I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’

• Luke 16:5

  Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’

• Luke 16:6

  He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

• Luke 16:7

  Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

• Luke 16:8

  “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

• Luke 16:9

  I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

• Luke 16:10

  He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

• Luke 16:11

  If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

• Luke 16:12

  If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

• Luke 16:13

  No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

• Luke 16:19

  “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

• Luke 16:20

  A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

• Luke 16:21

  and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

• 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.

• Luke 16:23

  In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

• Luke 16:24

  He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

• Luke 16:25

  “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

• Luke 17:26

  As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

• Luke 17:27

  They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

• Luke 17:28

  Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

• Luke 17:29

  but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

• Luke 17:33

  Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

• Luke 21:34

  “So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

• John 5:44

  How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

• John 12:25

  He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

• John 12:43

  for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

• John 15:19

  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

• Romans 12:2

  Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

• 1 Corinthians 7:29

  But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

• 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;

• 1 Corinthians 7:31

  and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

• 1 Corinthians 10:6

  Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

• 1 Corinthians 15:32

  If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

• Philippians 3:18

  For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

• Philippians 3:19

  whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

• Colossians 3:2

  Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

• 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 Timothy 5:6

  But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

• 2 Timothy 2:4

  No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

• 2 Timothy 2:22

  Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

• 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;

• 2 Timothy 3:5

  holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

• 2 Timothy 3:6

  For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

• 2 Timothy 3:7

  always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

• Titus 1:12

  One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

• Titus 2:12

  instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• Hebrews 11:24

  By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

• Hebrews 11:25

  choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

• Hebrews 11:26

  accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

• Hebrews 12:16

  lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

• James 2:1

  My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

• James 2:2

  For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

• James 2:3

  and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, “Sit here in a good place”; and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”;

• James 2:4

  haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

• James 4:4

  You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

• James 4:9

  Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

• James 5:5

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

• 1 Peter 1:14

  as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

• 1 Peter 1:24

  For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

• 1 Peter 2:11

  Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

• 1 Peter 4:3

  For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

• 1 Peter 4:4

  They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

• 2 Peter 1:11

  For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

• 2 Peter 2:12

  But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

• 2 Peter 2:13

  receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

• 2 Peter 2:14

  having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

• 2 Peter 2:15

  forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

• 2 Peter 2:18

  For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

• 1 John 1:11
• 1 John 1:12
• 1 John 1:13
• 1 John 1:16
• 1 John 1:19
• 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.

• 1 John 2:16

  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

• 1 John 2:17

  The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.