Ecclesiastes 6:8
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8 For what advantage have the wise over fools? And what do the poor have who know how to conduct themselves before the living?(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:14-16
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14 The wise have eyes in their head,
but fools walk in darkness.
Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.(A) 15 Then I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity.(B) 16 For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?
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Proverbs 19:1
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19 Better the poor walking in integrity
than one perverse of speech who is a fool.(A)
1 Timothy 6:17
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17 As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.(A)
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Luke 1:6
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6 Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 5:11
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11 When goods increase, those who eat them increase, and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
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Psalm 116:9
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9 I walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
Psalm 101:2
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2 I will study the way that is blameless.
When shall I attain it?
I will walk with integrity of heart
within my house;(A)
Genesis 17:1
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The Sign of the Covenant
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be blameless.(A)
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- 17.1 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
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