Order of
importance
Commandments, ten commandments
Following of Jesus
Earthly or heavenly treasure?
Giving of oneself to God
Right and wrong trust
Seeking of God
Shortness of our life
Temporal pleasures
To find and to lose life
Will of God
Vows to God
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TEMPORAL PLEASURES
Lu 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they
have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of
this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
12:16 And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich
man brought forth plentifully:
17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no
room where to bestow my fruits?
18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater;
and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many
years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of
you: then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?
21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
17:32 Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose
his life shall preserve it.
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, jealousies, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies,
21 Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which
I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do
such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Eph 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from
now on walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God
through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their
heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to
work all uncleanness with greediness.
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,
hateful, and hating one another.
4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his
mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy
Ghost;
Heb 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be
called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to
enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in
Egypt: for he had respect to the recompense of the reward.
Jas 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us
lusts to envy?
1 Pe 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the
flower of grass. The grass wither, and the flower thereof falls away:
25 But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by
the gospel is preached to you.
4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the
lusts of men, but to the will of God.
3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of
the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,
revelings, parties, and abominable idolatries:
4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the
dead.
2 Pe 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall
utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it
pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling
unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed
children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way
of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice
forbade the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to
whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through
the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean
escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of
corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in
bondage.
1 Joh 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the
will of God stays for ever.
Gen 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of
the hypocrite but for a moment?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be
chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place
any more behold him.
21:12 They take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the
organ.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
14 Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the
knowledge of your ways.
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we
have, if we pray to him?
27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God
takes away his soul?
Pr 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that
mirth is heaviness.
14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man
shall be satisfied from himself.
31:30 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the
LORD, she shall be praised.
Ec 1:8 All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is
not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
2:1 I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore
enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What does it?
3 I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with
wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for
the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their
life.
4 I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of
fruits:
6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that brings forth
trees:
7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I
had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in
Jerusalem before me:
8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and
of the provinces: I got me men singers and women singers, and the delights
of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in
Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
10 And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my
heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my
portion of all my labor.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the labor
that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit,
and there was no profit under the sun.
8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun,
than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of
his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him
remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is
vanity.
9 Rejoice, O 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 you, that for all these things God will bring you into
judgment.
10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your
flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
12:1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil
days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no
pleasure in them;
2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened,
nor the clouds return after the rain:
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men
shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those
that look out of the windows be darkened,
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding
is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters
of music shall be brought low;
5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be
in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be
a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his long home, and the
mourners go about the streets:
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the
pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall
return to God who gave it.
8 Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.
Isa 5:11 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may
follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their
feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the
operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried
up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices,
shall descend into it.
Am 6:1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the
mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house
of Israel came!
2 Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from there go you to Hamath the great:
then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms?
or their border greater than your border?
3 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come
near;
4 That lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and
eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the
stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments
of music, like David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments:
but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and
the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
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