Font Size
Ecclesiastes 5:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ecclesiastes 5:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 When goods increase, those who eat them increase, and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
Read full chapter
Ecclesiastes 5:11
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 5:11
New International Version
11 As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
1 John 2:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 John 2:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.
Read full chapter
1 John 2:16
New International Version
1 John 2:16
New International Version
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.
Habakkuk 2:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Habakkuk 2:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 Is it not from the Lord of hosts
that peoples labor only to feed the flames
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
Habakkuk 2:13
New International Version
Habakkuk 2:13
New International Version
Proverbs 23:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Proverbs 23:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 When your eyes light upon it, it is gone,
for suddenly it takes wings to itself,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23:5
New International Version
Proverbs 23:5
New International Version
Psalm 119:36-37
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Psalm 119:36-37
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
36 Turn my heart to your decrees
and not to selfish gain.(A)
37 Turn my eyes from looking at vanities;
be gracious to me[a] according to your word.(B)
Footnotes
- 119.37 Q ms: MT give me life
Psalm 119:36-37
New International Version
Psalm 119:36-37
New International Version
Read full chapter
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 6:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ecclesiastes 6:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.(A)
Read full chapter
Ecclesiastes 6:9
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 6:9
New International Version
9 Better what the eye sees
than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
a chasing after the wind.(A)
Ecclesiastes 11:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ecclesiastes 11:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.(A)
Read full chapter
Ecclesiastes 11:9
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 11:9
New International Version
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)
Nehemiah 5:17-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Nehemiah 5:17-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 Moreover, there were at my table one hundred fifty people, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations around us.(A) 18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and every ten days skins of wine in abundance, yet with all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because of the heavy burden of labor on the people.(B)
Read full chapter
Nehemiah 5:17-18
New International Version
Nehemiah 5:17-18
New International Version
17 Furthermore, a hundred and fifty Jews and officials ate at my table, as well as those who came to us from the surrounding nations. 18 Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry(A) were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people.
1 Kings 5:13-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Kings 5:13-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 King Solomon conscripted forced labor out of all Israel; the levy numbered thirty thousand men. 14 He sent them to the Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they would be a month in the Lebanon and two months at home;[a] Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.(A) 15 Solomon also had seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country,(B) 16 besides Solomon’s three thousand three hundred supervisors who were over the work, having charge of the people who did the work.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 5.14 Or at his palace
1 Kings 5:13-16
New International Version
1 Kings 5:13-16
New International Version
13 King Solomon conscripted laborers(A) from all Israel—thirty thousand men. 14 He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram(B) was in charge of the forced labor. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, 16 as well as thirty-three hundred[a] foremen(C) who supervised the project and directed the workers.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred
Joshua 7:21-25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Joshua 7:21-25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. They now lie hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent with the silver underneath. 23 They took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and they spread them out before the Lord. 24 Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, with the silver, the mantle, and the bar of gold, with his sons and daughters, with his oxen, donkeys, and sheep, and his tent and all that he had, and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.(A) 25 Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord is bringing trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him to death; they burned them with fire, cast stones on them,(B)
Read full chapter
Joshua 7:21-25
New International Version
Joshua 7:21-25
New International Version
21 When I saw in the plunder(A) a beautiful robe from Babylonia,[a] two hundred shekels[b] of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels,[c] I coveted(B) them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath. 23 They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and spread them out before the Lord.
24 Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons(C) and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor.(D) 25 Joshua said, “Why have you brought this trouble(E) on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today.”
Then all Israel stoned him,(F) and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them.(G)
Footnotes
- Joshua 7:21 Hebrew Shinar
- Joshua 7:21 That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
- Joshua 7:21 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams
Genesis 13:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 13:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, 6 and the land could not support both of them living together because their possessions were so great that they could not live together. 7 Thus strife arose between the herders of Abram’s livestock and the herders of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 13:5-7
New International Version
Genesis 13:5-7
New International Version
5 Now Lot,(A) who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.(B) 7 And quarreling(C) arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites(D) and Perizzites(E) were also living in the land(F) at that time.
Genesis 13:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 13:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Read full chapter
Genesis 13:2
New International Version
Genesis 13:2
New International Version
Genesis 12:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 12:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram, and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 12:16
New International Version
Genesis 12:16
New International Version
16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.(A)
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.