(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.

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14 For (A)God will bring every deed into judgment, with[a] every secret thing, whether good or evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:14 Or into the judgment on

Do Not Love the World

15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. (B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—(C)the desires of the flesh and (D)the desires of the eyes and pride of life[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world.

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  1. 1 John 2:16 Or pride in possessions

17 I said in my heart, (A)God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is (B)a time for every matter and for every work.

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Remember Your Creator in Your Youth

12 Remember also your Creator in (A)the days of your youth, before (B)the evil days come and the years draw near of which (C)you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

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27 (A)It is good for a man that he bear
    the yoke (B)in his youth.

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10 For (A)we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, (B)so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

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if my step has turned aside from the way
    and (A)my heart has gone after my eyes,
    and if any (B)spot has stuck to my hands,

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27 And just as (A)it is appointed for man to die once, and (B)after that comes judgment,

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the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

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But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are (A)storing up (B)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

(C)He will render to each one according to his works: to those who (D)by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking[a] and (E)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress (F)for every human being who does evil, the Jew (G)first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and (H)peace for everyone who does good, (I)the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For (J)God shows no partiality.

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  1. Romans 2:8 Or contentious

10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart (A)found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my (B)reward for all my toil.

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12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and (A)books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is (B)the book of life. And (C)the dead were judged by what was written in the books, (D)according to what they had done. 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, (E)Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, (F)according to what they had done. 14 Then (G)Death and Hades (H)were thrown into the lake of fire. This is (I)the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, (J)he was thrown into the lake of fire.

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(A)in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following (B)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in (C)the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in (D)the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body[a] and the mind, and (E)were by nature (F)children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.[b]

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  1. Ephesians 2:3 Greek flesh
  2. Ephesians 2:3 Greek like the rest

10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For (A)we will all stand before (B)the judgment seat of God;

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28 But I say to you that (A)everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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30 (A)But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

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So 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,[a] she took of its fruit (A)and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, (B)and he ate.

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  1. Genesis 3:6 Or to give insight

But by the same word (A)the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and (B)destruction of the ungodly.

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17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, (A)‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who (B)stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, (C)‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”

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12 So I (A)gave them over to their (B)stubborn hearts,
    to follow their own (C)counsels.

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(A)He calls to the heavens above
    and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
“Gather to me my faithful ones,
    who made (B)a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
(C)The heavens declare his righteousness,
    for (D)God himself is judge! Selah

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It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on (A)the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this (B)Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of (C)Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. ((D)Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

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39 And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, (A)not to follow[a] after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined (B)to whore after.

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  1. Numbers 15:39 Hebrew to spy out

25 And as he reasoned (A)about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. (B)When I get an opportunity I will summon you.”

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