Worldliness

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning Jude 1:11-13,16,191 Samuel 8:191 Samuel 8:20Job 20:4–29Job 21:11–15Psalms 49:16–18Psalms 73:2–22Proverbs 14:12Proverbs 14:13Proverbs 15:21Proverbs 21:17Proverbs 23:20Proverbs 23:21Proverbs 27:1Proverbs 27:7Ecclesiastes 1:8Ecclesiastes 2:1–12Ecclesiastes 6:11Ecclesiastes 6:12Ecclesiastes 8:15–17Ecclesiastes 10:19
• See Covetousness
• See Pleasures
• See Riches
• INSTANCES OF
• EsauGenesis 25:30–34Hebrews 12:16
• JacobGenesis 25:31–34Genesis 27:36Genesis 30:37–43
• JudahGenesis 37:26Genesis 37:27
• IsraelitesNumbers 11:33Numbers 11:34Psalms 78:18Psalms 78:29–31
• Balaam Jude 1:11; with2 Peter 2:15Numbers 22Numbers 23Numbers 24
• Eli' s sons1 Samuel 2:12–17
• Gehazi2 Kings 5:21–27

The passages, in Bible order (108)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 25:30–34

   He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

   ›Commentary on Genesis 25:30–341 voice

   “(Verse 30) And Esau said to Jacob: Give me a taste of that red stew, for I am famished. That is why he was called Edom. Red or tawny is called Edom in the Hebrew language. Therefore, from the fact that he sold his birthright for red food, he obtained the name Edom, which means tawny.

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2. Genesis 25:31–34

   “First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

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   “Reason would then curtail the attractions of gluttony and the other excessive desires and would check the passions and emotions of the body. Therefore temperance comes before correction and is the mistress of learning. Proceeding from it, holy Jacob received from his brother the primacy that he had not possessed; by his agreement to that preference, Esau taught for the future that those who do not govern their own selves are worthless in judgment.

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3. Genesis 27:36

   So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 27:361 voice

   “(Verse 36.) And Esau said, rightly is his name called Jacob: for he hath supplanted me these two times. Jacob is interpreted supplanter. And therefore, because he had deceived his brother by art, he alluded to the name. Therefore, he was called Jacob before, because he had taken hold of his brother's heel in his birth.

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4. Genesis 30:37–43

   Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

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   “The just man Jacob comes in like a hired hand and yet is the master who, in his ministry of preaching the gospel, gathered together a flock that is resplendent in the brilliance of its many signal virtues. Thus, when the flock came to drink, he would set before them in the troughs the bough of storax and walnut and that from the plane tree; those who felt desire for the mysteries of the most blessed Trinity that were prefigured there could engender offspring that were not at all discolored, by conceiving them in a devout mind.

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5. Genesis 37:26

   Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

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   “And Judah said unto his brethren,....

   “Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.

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6. Genesis 37:27

   Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 37:272 voices

   “Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.

   “And so that we may understand that all this concerning the people and the mystery of the Lord Jesus: Come, he says, let us sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites. What is the interpretation of the name Joseph, except that it signifies divine grace and the expression of the highest God? Who, therefore, is sold, except he who, while being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal to God: but he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant? For we would not have sent him, if they had not sold him.

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7. Numbers 11:33

   But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 11:331 voice

   “And that He might increase in them this fear, immediately, by the mouth of offence, the rod of His chastisement was revealed, and after the offence the Chastiser gave them no respite, because their servitude was not worthy of His longsuffering. Above their head the …

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8. Numbers 11:34

   So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 11:341 voice

   “How is it that the graves of lust where the people fell in their devotion to flesh remain even to this day in the wilderness? Do we not read that the stupid people gorged themselves with quails until the wrath of God came upon them?

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9. Numbers 22:1

   Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

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   “And the children of Israel set forward,....

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10. Numbers 23:1

    Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

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    “And Balaam said unto Balak,.... When upon one of the high places of Baal, and after having taken a view of the people of Israel as they lay encamped: build me here seven altars; this was purely Heathenish; for not only the Israelites after the law of Moses had but one altar, but the patriarchs before that never built but one altar at a time.

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11. Numbers 24:1

    And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 24:11 voice

    “Now, in order that He might be shown to have together in Himself at once the nature of God and that of man,-as the apostle, too, says: "Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Now a mediator is not of one man, but two," -it was therefore necessary that Christ, in becoming the Mediator between God and men, should receive from both an earnest of some kind, that He might appear as the Mediator between two distinct persons.

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12. 1 Samuel 2:12–17

    Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

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    “3. Supply "were." For who else are the sons of Eli, if not the Israelites according to the flesh, who knew the Sacred Scripture published by the fathers, and yet did not know the one whom Scripture had promised? Whom indeed Truth itself rebukes in the Gospel, saying: "Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it, and was glad" (John 8:56). And again: "If you believed Moses, you would certainly believe me also, for he wrote about me" (John 5:46). Therefore they did not know the Lord, who spurned the Redeemer coming in our flesh.

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13. 1 Samuel 8:19

    Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.

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    “10. It was indeed a matter of great rashness to ask for a king against God's will; of great hardness, to be unable to be overcome by the counsels of the prophet. It was of great rashness to put forth arguments to him whom they knew, by the Lord's revelation, to know beforehand all that he was about to do. Of great hardness, not to yield to him whom they knew to command only those things which he had learned by the Lord's revelation.

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14. 1 Samuel 8:20

    Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”

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    “That we also may be like all the nations,.... Even though they were slaves, like them; a king they would have, as they had, such was their stupidity.

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15. 2 Kings 5:21–27

    So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”

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    “Gehazi was a covetous man to the bottom of his heart. He had pretended to reject his hidden greed but saw, through the betrayal of his mouth, what his soul was trying to hide.

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16. Job 20:4–29

    Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

    ›Commentary on Job 20:4–291 voice

    “Ver. 4, 5. I know this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

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