Ecclesiastes 5:11

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”

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

Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

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

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

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.” ’

“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?’

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.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

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;

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

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

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

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

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

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?

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.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

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.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

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;

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

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.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’ ”

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.

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.”

and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

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

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

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.

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;”

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.

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

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.