6 Bible Verses about Futility Of Worldly Pursuits

For we bring nothing into the world and surely we can take nothing out of it.

Continue charging the rich of this world to stop being haughty and not to fix their hope on a thing so uncertain as riches, but on God who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment; charge them to continue doing good and being rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous hearted, in this way amassing for themselves the riches that forever endure in the life to come, so that at last they may grasp the life that is life indeed.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life? For what price can a man give to buy back life?

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

But Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received in full your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus his hardships in his, but now he is continuously comforted here, while you are continuously tortured there. Besides all this, between you and us there stands fixed a great chasm, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

For this world's wisdom is mere nonsense to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"