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Luke 12:19
And I will say to myself,“ You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’
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Ecclesiastes 8:15
So I recommend the enjoyment of life, for there is nothing better on earth for a person to do except to eat, drink, and enjoy life. So joy will accompany him in his toil during the days of his life which God gives him on earth.
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Ecclesiastes 3:17-18
I thought to myself,“ God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed.I also thought to myself,“ It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.
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2 Kings 5 5
The king of Syria said,“ Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten suits of clothes.
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Genesis 11:3-4
Then they said to one another,“ Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”( They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)Then they said,“ Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
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Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.
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James 5:5
You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
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Luke 16:19
“ There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
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Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
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Ecclesiastes 2:15
So I thought to myself,“ The fate of the fool will happen even to me! Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively wise?” So I lamented to myself,“ The benefits of wisdom are ultimately meaningless!”
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Revelation 18:7-8
As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself,‘ I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”
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Isaiah 50:5
The sovereign LORD has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.
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Psalms 14:1
Fools say to themselves,“ There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
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Psalms 27:8
My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O LORD.
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Psalms 10:6
He says to himself,“ I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity.”
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Isaiah 5:5
Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
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Psalms 30:6-7
In my self-confidence I said,“ I will never be upended.”O LORD, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
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Genesis 11:7
Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”
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Isaiah 50:11
Look, all of you who start a fire and who equip yourselves with flaming arrows, walk in the light of the fire you started and among the flaming arrows you ignited! This is what you will receive from me: you will lie down in a place of pain.
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Ecclesiastes 1:16-17
I thought to myself,“ I have become much wiser than any of my predecessors who ruled over Jerusalem; I have acquired much wisdom and knowledge.”So I decided to discern the benefit of wisdom and knowledge over foolish behavior and ideas; however, I concluded that even this endeavor is like trying to chase the wind!
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James 4:13
Come now, you who say,“ Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
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Ecclesiastes 7:4
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of merrymaking.
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James 5:1
Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.
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Luke 16:23
And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.