Ecclesiastes 2:10
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10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
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9 Enjoy life with your wife,(A) whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot(B) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
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18 This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink(A) and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor(B) under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
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22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work,(A) because that is their lot.(B) For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
Psalm 128:2
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1 John 2:16
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16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,(A) the lust of the eyes,(B) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
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22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?(A)
Psalm 119:37
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Footnotes
- Psalm 119:37 Two manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Dead Sea Scrolls; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text life in your way
Ecclesiastes 11:9
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9 You who are young, be happy while you are young,
and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth.
Follow the ways of your heart
and whatever your eyes see,
but know that for all these things
God will bring you into judgment.(A)
Ecclesiastes 6:9
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9 Better what the eye sees
than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
a chasing after the wind.(A)
Proverbs 23:5
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Job 31:1
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Judges 14:2
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2 When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”(A)
Genesis 6:2
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2 the sons of God(A) saw that the daughters(B) of humans were beautiful,(C) and they married(D) any of them they chose.
Genesis 3:6
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6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable(A) for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband,(B) who was with her, and he ate it.(C)
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