Psalms 78:30

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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.

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.

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

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

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

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

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

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

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

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

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

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

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

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

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

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.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

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;

The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

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.”

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

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

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

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

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

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

“But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

“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?’

He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

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.