Ecclesiastes 5:11

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Summary

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

They

What

1 John 2:16

General references

Genesis 13:6

Matthew 6:19

Bible References

They

And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and menslaves and maidslaves and she asses and camels.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal,

And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men,

I also had at my table one hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those that came unto us from among the Gentiles that are around us.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

What

It is better to enjoy the good that is present than the wandering of desire; this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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.

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon riches which are not? For they shall certainly make themselves wings; they shall fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

Is this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.

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.

General references

And the land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together, for their substance was so great that they could not dwell together.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;