Philippians 3:19 ESV / 1,036 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 850 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 707 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

Proverbs 23:21 ESV / 560 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 547 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 545 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Psalm 78:18 ESV / 448 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 391 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

Philippians 3:18-19 ESV / 384 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 374 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 364 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 13:14 ESV / 291 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 271 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.

Proverbs 23:20 ESV / 268 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,

Galatians 5:16-26 ESV / 244 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ...

Proverbs 28:7 ESV / 243 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Matthew 11:19 ESV / 240 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 200 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

James 4:7 ESV / 187 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 187 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Luke 7:34 ESV / 187 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Ecclesiastes 10:17 ESV / 160 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Titus 1:12 ESV / 158 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 150 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 148 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 142 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 142 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Luke 21:34 ESV / 138 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Proverbs 23:1-3 ESV / 130 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 127 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 15:32 ESV / 118 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Amos 6:4-7 ESV / 118 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall, who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music, who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph! Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 116 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Deuteronomy 21:20-21 ESV / 116 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Exodus 32:6 ESV / 116 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 111 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 111 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Isaiah 22:13 ESV / 111 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

1 Corinthians 10:7 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

Luke 12:45 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

Daniel 5:1 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.

Proverbs 23:19-21 ESV / 106 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Hebrews 12:16-17 ESV / 97 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful That no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 97 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

James 1:14 ESV / 96 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Genesis 25:30-34 ESV / 96 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.) Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.” Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 94 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:49-50 ESV / 92 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 91 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Philippians 4:5 ESV / 89 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

1 Samuel 2:12-17 ESV / 89 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord. The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand, and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.” And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.” ...

Galatians 6:7-8 ESV / 88 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Numbers 11:4 ESV / 87 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!

Isaiah 58:13-14 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Galatians 5:24 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

John 4:34 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Luke 12:23 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 80 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

Psalm 22:26 ESV / 80 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever!

James 2:10 ESV / 78 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

1 Samuel 30:16 ESV / 75 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

Psalm 78:17-19 ESV / 74 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved. They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 73 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 71 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Luke 22:19 ESV / 69 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 61 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord, saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? ...

Romans 12:2 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 58 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Jeremiah 7:8-10 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.

Exodus 16:21 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

Matthew 6:17-18 ESV / 55 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Hebrews 10:26-39 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ...

2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Philippians 3:19-20 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Corinthians 11:17-34 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. ...

Romans 8:1-4 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Luke 16:13 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

Matthew 23:25 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Jeremiah 3:6-10 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore. Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree. Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

Numbers 11:32-33 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

1 Thessalonians 5:14-24 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ...

Romans 14:17-21 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Luke 20:46-47 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Ezekiel 34:16-35:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. “As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats. Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet? “Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ...

Isaiah 55:1-13 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. ...

Ecclesiastes 6:5-10 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he. Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place? All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind. ...

Proverbs 22:1-23:35 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. ...

Proverbs 13:13-25 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded. The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin. In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly. A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing. ...

Proverbs 11:17-26 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself. The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward. Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die. Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight. Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered. ...

Proverbs 1:32 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;