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Fear God

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (MSG)
The last and final word is this: Fear God. Do what he tells you.

Youth

Ecclesiastes 12:1 (MSG)
Honor and enjoy your Creator while you're still young, Before the years take their toll and your vigor wanes, Before your vision dims and the world blurs And the winter years keep you close to the fire.

Generosity

Ecclesiastes 11:2 (MSG)
Don't hoard your goods; spread them around. Be a blessing to others. This could be your last night.

Marriage

Ecclesiastes 9:9 (MSG)
Relish life with the spouse you love Each and every day of your precarious life. Each day is God's gift. It's all you get in exchange For the hard work of staying alive. Make the most of each one!

Work

Ecclesiastes 5:19 (MSG)
Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what's given and delighting in the work. It's God's gift!

Money

Ecclesiastes 5:10 (MSG)
The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, Nor the one who loves wealth with big profits. More smoke.

Laziness

Ecclesiastes 4:5 (MSG)
The fool sits back and takes it easy, His sloth is slow suicide.

Atheism

Proverbs 30:1 (MSG)
God? Who Needs Him? The skeptic swore, "There is no God! No God!—I can do anything I want! I'm more animal than human; so-called human intelligence escapes me.

Party

Proverbs 28:19 (MSG)
Work your garden—you'll end up with plenty of food; play and party—you'll end up with an empty plate.

Pursuing excellence

Proverbs 24:30-34 (MSG)
One day I walked by the field of an old lazybones, and then passed the vineyard of a lout; They were overgrown with weeds, thick with thistles, all the fences broken down. I took a long look and pondered what I saw; the fields preached me a sermon and I listened: "A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, with poverty as your permanent houseguest!"

Perseverance

Proverbs 24:16 (MSG)
No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don't stay down long; Soon they're up on their feet, while the wicked end up flat on their faces.

Drinking

Proverbs 23:31-34 (MSG)
Don't judge wine by its label, or its bouquet, or its full-bodied flavor.

Generosity

Proverbs 21:26 (MSG)
Sinners are always wanting what they don't have; the God-loyal are always giving what they do have.

Lazy

Proverbs 21:25 (MSG)
Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.

Sleep

Proverbs 20:13 (MSG)
Don't be too fond of sleep; you'll end up in the poorhouse. Wake up and get up; then there'll be food on the table.

Excellence

Proverbs 18:9 (MSG)
Slack habits and sloppy work are as bad as vandalism.

Work

Proverbs 14:23 (MSG)
Hard work always pays off; mere talk puts no bread on the table.

Discipline of children'

Proverbs 13:24 (MSG)
A refusal to correct is a refusal to love; love your children by disciplining them.

Lazy

Proverbs 12:27 (MSG)
A lazy life is an empty life, but "early to rise" gets the job done.

Giving

Proverbs 3:9-10 (MSG)
Honor God with everything you own; give him the first and the best.

Possessions

Proverbs 1:19 (MSG)
When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are. Lady Wisdom

Brevity of life

Psalm 146:4 (MSG)
Mere humans don't have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them.

Focus

Psalm 40:4 (MSG)
Blessed are you who give yourselves over to god, turn your backs on the world's "sure thing," ignore what the world worships; The world's a huge stockpile of god-wonders and God-thoughts. Nothing and no one comes close to you! I start talking about you, telling what I know, and quickly run out of words. Neither numbers nor words account for you.

Waiting

Psalm 40:1 (MSG)
I waited and waited and waited for god. At last he looked; finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch, pulled me from deep mud. He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn't slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to god.

Sin

Psalm 39:11 (MSG)
to purge us from our sin, our dearest idols go up in smoke. Are we also nothing but smoke?