Ecclesiastes 2:26

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

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.’

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

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

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

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

I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,