Ecclesiastes 2:10

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

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, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.