Ecclesiastes 5:10
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10 He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;
Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity.
1 Timothy 6:10
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10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Matthew 6:24
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You Cannot Serve God and Riches
24 (A)“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. (B)You cannot serve God and [a]mammon.
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- Matthew 6:24 Lit., in Aram., riches
Luke 12:15
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15 And He said to them, (A)“Take heed and beware of [a]covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
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- Luke 12:15 NU all covetousness
Matthew 6:19
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Lay Up Treasures in Heaven(A)
19 (B)“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
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8 There is one alone, without [a]companion:
He has neither son nor brother.
Yet there is no end to all his labors,
Nor is his (A)eye satisfied with riches.
But (B)he never asks,
“For whom do I toil and deprive myself of (C)good?”
This also is vanity and a [b]grave misfortune.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 Lit. a second
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 Lit. evil task
Ecclesiastes 4:4
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The Vanity of Selfish Toil
4 Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Psalm 62:10
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10 Do not trust in oppression,
Nor vainly hope in robbery;
(A)If riches increase,
Do not set your heart on them.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
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26 For God gives (A)wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that (B)he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Psalm 52:7
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7 “Here is the man who did not make God his strength,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches,
And strengthened himself in his [a]wickedness.”
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- Psalm 52:7 Lit. desire, in evil sense
Habakkuk 2:5-7
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Woe to the Wicked
5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man,
And he does not stay at home.
Because he (A)enlarges his desire as [a]hell,
And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
He gathers to himself all nations
And heaps up for himself all peoples.
6 “Will not all these (B)take up a proverb against him,
And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
‘Woe to him who increases
What is not his—how long?
And to him who loads himself with [b]many pledges’?
7 Will not [c]your creditors rise up suddenly?
Will they not awaken who oppress you?
And you will become their booty.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:5 Or Sheol
- Habakkuk 2:6 Syr., Vg. thick clay
- Habakkuk 2:7 Lit. those who bite you
Ecclesiastes 2:11
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11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
And on the labor in which I had toiled;
And indeed all was (A)vanity and grasping for the wind.
There was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
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16 There was no end of all the people [a]over whom he was made king;
Yet those who come afterward will not rejoice in him.
Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 4:16 Lit. to all before whom he was to be
Ecclesiastes 3:19
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19 (A)For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.
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Proverbs 30:15-16
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15 The leech has two daughters—
Give and Give!
There are three things that are never satisfied,
Four never say, “Enough!”:
16 (A)The[a] grave,
The barren womb,
The earth that is not satisfied with water—
And the fire never says, “Enough!”
Footnotes
- Proverbs 30:16 Or Sheol
Ecclesiastes 6:7
New King James Version
7 (A)All the labor of man is for his mouth,
And yet the soul is not satisfied.
Ecclesiastes 2:17-18
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17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because (A)I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 (A)And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.
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Psalm 52:1
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The End of the Wicked and the Peace of the Godly
To the Chief Musician. A [a]Contemplation of David (A)when Doeg the Edomite went and (B)told Saul, and said to him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”
52 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The goodness of God endures continually.
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:1 Heb. Maschil
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