And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.
So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”
the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
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