luke 21:34 nas

Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap...

proverbs 10:23-24 nlt

Doing wrong is fun for a fool, but living wisely brings pleasure to the sensible.

i corinthians 3:3 niv

You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?

proverbs 2:10 niv

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

psalm 16:6 niv

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

ii timothy 3:4 niv

treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

i timothy 5:6 niv

But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

ecclesiastes 2:2 nas

I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of pleasure, "What does it accomplish?"

isaiah 30:6-11 niv

A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation, to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing. Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness. For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD’s instruction. They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!"

hebrews 10:24 niv

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,

philippians 4:8 esv

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

isaiah 47:7-11 niv

You said, ‘I am forever— the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen. "Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.’ Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells. You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

isaiah 32:8-14 nas

But the noble man devises noble plans; And by noble plans he stands. Rise up, you women who are at ease, And hear my voice; Give ear to my word, You complacent daughters. Within a year and a few days You will be troubled, O complacent daughters; For the vintage is ended, And the fruit gathering will not come. Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent daughters; Strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist, Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city. Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;

galatians 6:7 niv

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

proverbs 14:23 niv

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

ecclesiastes 11:4 niv

Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

hosea 8:7 niv

They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

jeremiah 17:9 niv

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

proverbs 27:8 nas

Like a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home.

proverbs 21:16 nas

A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

ephesians 4:14 esv

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

jude 10 esv

But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

proverbs 4:23 csb

Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.

hebrews 12:1-2 niv

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

psalm 119:59 esv

When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to Your testimonies...

ecclesiastes 9:10 niv

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

colossians 3:23-24 niv

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

isaiah 26:3 nlt

You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!

zephaniah 2:3 niv

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what He commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility...

i chronicles 16:10-11 esv

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice! Seek the LORD and His strength; seek His presence continually!

psalm 34:10 niv

The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

deuteronomy 4:28-29 niv

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

colossians 3:11 niv

Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

i corinthians 15:28 niv

When He has done this, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put everything under Him, so that God may be all in all.

jeremiah 23:24 niv

Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD.

romans 11:36 esv

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.

micah 7:7 nas

But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

psalm 123:1-2 niv

I lift up my eyes to You, to You Who sit enthroned in Heaven. As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till He shows us His mercy.

psalm 105:3-4 esv

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice! Seek the LORD and his strength; seek His presence continually!

james 1:17 niv

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, Who does not change like shifting shadows.

ecclesiastes 2:24-25 nlt

So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God. For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from Him?

psalm 73:25 niv

Whom have I in heaven but You? And earth has nothing I desire besides You.

psalm 16:11 esv

You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

revelation 3:19-20 nlt

I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference. Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear My voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.

psalm 19:14 niv

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

proverbs 3:13-18 nkjv

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who retain her.

i corinthians 1:30 niv

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, Who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

ii peter 3:1 niv

Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.

i corinthians 10:6, 11 niv

Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

proverbs 24:30-34 niv

I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

jeremiah 2:10-12 niv

Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this: Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror," declares the LORD.

romans 13:14 niv

Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

isaiah 32:8 nas

But the noble man devises noble plans; And by noble plans he stands.

proverbs 12:5 nkjv

The thoughts of the righteous are right, But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

proverbs 14:22 esv

Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.