Ecclesiastes 2:10
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10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
And (A)this was my [a]reward from all my labor.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:10 Lit. portion
Ecclesiastes 9:9
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9 [a]Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; (A)for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:9 Lit. See life
Ecclesiastes 5:18
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18 Here is what I have seen: (A)It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; (B)for it is his [a]heritage.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:18 Lit. portion
Ecclesiastes 3:22
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22 (A)So I perceived that nothing is better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for (B)that is his [a]heritage. (C)For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?
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- Ecclesiastes 3:22 portion or lot
Psalm 128:2
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- Psalm 128:2 Fruit of the labor
1 John 2:16
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16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, (A)the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22
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22 (A)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?
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Psalm 119:37
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- Psalm 119:37 Lit. Cause my eyes to pass away from
- Psalm 119:37 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; Tg. Your words
Ecclesiastes 11:9
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9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth,
And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth;
(A)Walk in the [a]ways of your heart,
And [b]in the sight of your eyes;
But know that for all these
(B)God will bring you into judgment.
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- Ecclesiastes 11:9 Impulses
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 As you see to be best
Ecclesiastes 6:9
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9 Better is [a]the (A)sight of the eyes than the wandering of [b]desire.
This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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- Ecclesiastes 6:9 What the eyes see
- Ecclesiastes 6:9 Lit. soul
Proverbs 23:5
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5 [a]Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
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- Proverbs 23:5 Lit. Will you cause your eyes to fly upon it and it is not?
Job 31:1
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Judges 14:2
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2 So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, (A)get her for me as a wife.”
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Genesis 6:2
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2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they (A)took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
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Genesis 3:6
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6 So when the woman (A)saw that the tree was good for food, that it was [a]pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit (B)and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
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- Genesis 3:6 Lit. a desirable thing
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