TOPICAL STUDY WORLDLINESS 1SA 8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 1SA 8:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. JOB 20:4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, JOB 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? JOB 20:6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; JOB 20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? JOB 20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. JOB 20:9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. JOB 20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. JOB 20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. JOB 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; JOB 20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: JOB 20:14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. JOB 20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. JOB 20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. JOB 20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. JOB 20:18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. JOB 20:19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; JOB 20:20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. JOB 20:21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. JOB 20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. JOB 20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. JOB 20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. JOB 20:25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. JOB 20:26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. JOB 20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. JOB 20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. JOB 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. JOB 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. JOB 21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. JOB 21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. JOB 21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. JOB 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? PSA 49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; PSA 49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. PSA 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. PSA 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. PSA 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. PSA 73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. PSA 73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. PSA 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. PSA 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. PSA 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. PSA 73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. PSA 73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. PSA 73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? PSA 73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. PSA 73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. PSA 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. PSA 73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. PSA 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; PSA 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. PSA 73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. PSA 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. PSA 73:20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. PSA 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. PSA 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. PRO 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. PRO 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. PRO 15:21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. PRO 21:17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. PRO 23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: PRO 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. PRO 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. PRO 27:7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. ECC 1:8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ECC 2:1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. ECC 2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? ECC 2:3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine 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. ECC 2:4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: ECC 2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: ECC 2:6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: ECC 2:7 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: ECC 2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. ECC 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. ECC 2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. ECC 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. ECC 2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. ECC 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? ECC 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? ECC 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. ECC 8:16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) ECC 8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. ECC 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. ECC 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. ECC 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity. ISA 22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: ISA 22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. ISA 24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. ISA 24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. ISA 24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. ISA 24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. ISA 24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. ISA 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. ISA 32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. ISA 32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. ISA 32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. ISA 47:7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. ISA 47:8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: ISA 47:9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. HOS 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. HOS 9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. HOS 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. AMO 6:3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; AMO 6:4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; AMO 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; AMO 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. AMO 6:7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. AMO 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. MIC 2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. MIC 6:14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword. HAG 1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. MAT 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? MAT 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? MAT 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? MAT 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: MAT 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. MAT 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? MAT 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? MAT 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. MAT 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. MAT 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. MAT 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. MAT 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? MAT 18:1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? MAT 18:2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, MAT 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. MAT 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. MAT 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, MAT 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. LUK 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. LUK 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. LUK 14:17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. LUK 14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. LUK 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. LUK 14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. LUK 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. LUK 14:22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. LUK 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. LUK 14:24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. LUK 16:1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. LUK 16:2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. LUK 16:3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. LUK 16:4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. LUK 16:5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? LUK 16:6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. LUK 16:7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. LUK 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. LUK 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. LUK 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. LUK 16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? LUK 16:12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? LUK 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. LUK 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: LUK 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, LUK 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. LUK 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; LUK 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. LUK 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. LUK 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. LUK 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. JOH 5:44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? JOH 12:43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. JOH 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. ROM 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 1CO 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 1CO 7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 1CO 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. 1CO 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 1CO 15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. PHI 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: PHI 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) COL 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. COL 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 1TI 5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. 2TI 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 2TI 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2TI 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 2TI 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 2TI 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2TI 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2TI 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 2TI 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. TIT 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 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. HEB 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; HEB 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; HEB 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. JAM 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. JAM 2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; JAM 2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: JAM 2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? JAM 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. JAM 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. JAM 5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 1PE 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 1PE 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 1PE 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 1PE 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 1PE 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 2PE 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; 2PE 2:13 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; 2PE 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 2PE 2:15 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; 2PE 2:18 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. 1JO 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. 1JO 2:16 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. 1JO 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. JUD 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. JUD 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; JUD 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. JUD 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. JUD 1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. ============================== THE LECTRONIC IBRARY ECHANGE P.O. BOX 19454 DENVER, COLORADO 80219 BBS: 303-935-6323 FIDONET: 1:104/810.0 THENET: 8:7703/11.0 End Of File