Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. Jas 1:19Heb 12:28-29Pro 15:8Isa 1:12-201Pe 2:1-2Pro 21:27Exo 3:5Isa 66:3 Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few. Mat 6:7Pro 10:19Isa 55:9Mat 6:9Ecc 5:3Ecc 5:7Gen 18:27Num 30:2-5 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words. Pro 15:2Ecc 10:12-14Pro 10:19Job 11:2 When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. Num 30:2Deu 23:21-23Psa 76:11Mat 5:33Psa 66:13-14Psa 50:14Psa 119:106Heb 10:6 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. Act 5:4Deu 23:22Pro 20:25 Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? Jas 1:262Jn 1:8Jas 3:2Ecc 5:1-2Mal 2:7Lev 5:4-6Gen 48:161Co 3:13-15 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God. Mat 12:36Ecc 12:13Ecc 8:12Ecc 5:3Isa 50:10-11Pro 23:17Ecc 7:18Ecc 3:14
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them. Psa 12:5Ecc 4:1Ecc 3:161Ki 21:19-20Mat 13:41-42Psa 58:10-11Psa 82:1Rev 17:6-7 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field. 1Ki 4:7-23Psa 115:16Gen 1:29-30Psa 104:14-151Ch 27:26-311Sa 8:12-17Gen 3:17-19Jer 40:10-12
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. 1Ti 6:10Mat 6:24Luk 12:15Mat 6:19Ecc 4:8Ecc 4:4Ecc 2:26Psa 62:10 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes? 1Jn 2:16Hab 2:13Pro 23:5Psa 119:36-37Ecc 6:91Ki 5:13-16Ecc 11:9Gen 12:16
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. Pro 3:24Psa 4:8Jer 31:26Psa 127:2
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm. Ecc 6:1-2Luk 18:22-23Gen 19:14Luk 16:22-23Jas 5:1-4Ecc 4:8Ecc 8:9Gen 14:16 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. Ecc 2:26Hag 1:9Hag 2:16-17Job 20:15-29Job 5:5Mat 6:19-20Pro 23:51Ki 14:26 As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. Job 1:21Psa 49:171Ti 6:7Luk 12:20 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind? Ecc 1:3Pro 11:29Mrk 8:36Ecc 5:13Jhn 6:271Sa 12:21Ecc 2:22-23Hos 8:7 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath. Psa 127:21Co 11:30-321Ki 17:122Ch 16:10-122Ch 24:24-252Ki 1:22Ki 1:62Ki 5:27
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. Ecc 2:24Ecc 3:12-13Ecc 3:22Ecc 9:71Ti 6:17Ecc 2:10Ecc 8:15Ecc 11:9 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God. Deu 8:18Ecc 3:13Ecc 6:22Ch 1:12Ecc 2:24-261Ki 3:13 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life, because God occupies him with the joy of his heart. Isa 65:13-14Isa 65:21-24Psa 37:16Psa 4:6-7Rom 5:1Deu 28:47Deu 28:8-12Isa 64:5