Revelation 18:14

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?

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.

A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

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

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

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

The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

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

They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

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

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

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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.

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?”

Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

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.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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.

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.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

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.

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,

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—

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?

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”

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?

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

Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

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;

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

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

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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

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

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

“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?’

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

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

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

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.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;

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.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.