1 Corinthians 7:31
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31 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For (A)the present form of this world is passing away.
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1 John 2:17
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17 And (A)the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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1 Peter 4:7
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7 (A)The end of all things is at hand; therefore (B)be self-controlled and sober-minded (C)for the sake of your prayers.
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1 Peter 1:24
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24 for
(A)“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
James 4:14
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14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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Ecclesiastes 9:7-10
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Enjoy Life with the One You Love
7 Go, (A)eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
8 (B)Let your garments be always white. Let not (C)oil be lacking on your head.
9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your (D)vain[a] life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your (E)portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, (F)do it with your might,[b] (G)for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:9 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Or finds to do with your might, do it
Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely a man (A)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
man (B)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
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- Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath
James 5:1-5
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Warning to the Rich
5 Come now, (A)you rich, weep and howl for the (B)miseries that are coming upon you. 2 (C)Your riches have rotted and (D)your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (E)You have laid up treasure (F)in the last days. 4 Behold, (G)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (H)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (I)the Lord of hosts. 5 (J)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (K)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (L)a day of slaughter.
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James 1:10-11
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10 and (A)the rich in his humiliation, because (B)like a flower of the grass[a] he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and (C)withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
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- James 1:10 Or a wild flower
1 Timothy 6:17-18
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17 As for the rich in (A)this present age, charge them (B)not to be haughty, nor (C)to set their hopes on (D)the uncertainty of riches, but on God, (E)who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 18 They are to do good, (F)to be rich in good works, to be generous and (G)ready to share,
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1 Corinthians 9:18
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18 What then is my reward? That in my preaching (A)I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
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Luke 19:17-26
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17 And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant![a] Because you have been (A)faithful in a very little, (B)you shall have authority over ten cities.’ 18 And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made five minas.’ 19 And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20 Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in (C)a handkerchief; 21 for I was afraid of you, because you are (D)a severe man. You take (E)what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ 22 He said to him, (F)‘I will condemn you with your own words, (G)you wicked servant! You knew that I was (H)a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? 23 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’ 24 And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ 25 And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’ 26 ‘I tell you that (I)to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
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- Luke 19:17 Or bondservant; also verse 22
Luke 16:1-2
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The Parable of the Dishonest Manager
16 He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had (A)a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 2 And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your (B)management, for you can no longer be manager.’
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Luke 12:15-21
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15 And he said to them, (A)“Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 16 And he told them a parable, saying, (B)“The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, (C)‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my (D)barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (E)for many years; relax, (F)eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, (G)‘Fool! (H)This night (I)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (J)whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one (K)who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
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Matthew 25:14-29
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The Parable of the Talents
14 (A)“For (B)it will be like a man (C)going on a journey, who called his servants[a] and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five (D)talents,[b] to another two, to another one, (E)to each according to his ability. Then he (F)went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and (G)dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now (H)after a long time the master of those servants came and (I)settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and (J)faithful servant.[c] (K)You have been faithful over a little; (L)I will set you over much. Enter into (M)the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be (N)a hard man, reaping (O)where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, (P)you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You (Q)wicked and (R)slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 (S)For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
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- Matthew 25:14 Or bondservants; also verse 19
- Matthew 25:15 A talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer
- Matthew 25:21 Or bondservant; also verses 23, 26, 30
Matthew 24:48-50
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48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master (A)is delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants[a] and eats and drinks with (B)drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come (C)on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know
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- Matthew 24:49 Or bondservants
Ecclesiastes 11:9-10
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9 (A)Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. (B)Walk in the ways of your heart and (C)the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things (D)God will bring you into judgment.
10 Remove vexation from your heart, and (E)put away pain[a] from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 11:10 Or evil
Ecclesiastes 11:2
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2 (A)Give a portion to (B)seven, or even to eight,
(C)for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
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18 Behold, what I have seen to be (A)good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment[a] in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his (B)lot. 19 Everyone also to whom (C)God has given (D)wealth and possessions (E)and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is (F)the gift of God. 20 For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:18 Or and see good
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
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12 I perceived that there is (A)nothing better for them than to be joyful and to (B)do good as long as they live; 13 also (C)that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is (D)God's gift to man.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24-25
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24 (A)There is nothing better for a person than that he should (B)eat and drink and find enjoyment[a] in his toil. This also, I saw, is (C)from the hand of God, 25 for apart from him[b] who can eat or who can have enjoyment?
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- Ecclesiastes 2:24 Or and make his soul see good
- Ecclesiastes 2:25 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts apart from me
Ecclesiastes 1:4
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4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but (A)the earth remains forever.
Psalm 73:20
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20 Like (A)a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when (B)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
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