Ecclesiastes 3:18 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:18

18: Then I realized that God allows people to continue in their sinful ways so he can test them. That way, they can see for themselves that they are no better than animals.

Psalms 73:22

  1. I was so foolish and ignorant--I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you.

Hebrews 9:27

  1. And just as it is destined that each person dies only once and after that comes judgment,

Genesis 3:17

  1. And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
  2. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
  3. All your life you will sweat to produce food, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came. For you were made from dust, and to the dust you will return."

Psalms 49:12

  1. They will not last long despite their riches--they will die like the animals.

Psalms 49:19

  1. But they will die like all others before them and never again see the light of day.
  2. People who boast of their wealth don't understand that they will die like the animals.

Job 14:1

  1. "How frail is humanity! How short is life, and how full of trouble!
  2. Like a flower, we blossom for a moment and then wither. Like the shadow of a passing cloud, we quickly disappear.
  3. Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me?
  4. Who can create purity in one born impure? No one!

Psalms 49:14

  1. Like sheep, they are led to the grave, where death will be their shepherd. In the morning the godly will rule over them. Their bodies will rot in the grave, far from their grand estates.

Romans 3:4

  1. Of course not! Though everyone else in the world is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say, "He will be proved right in what he says, and he will win his case in court."

Job 40:8

  1. Are you going to discredit my justice and condemn me so you can say you are right?

Job 15:16

  1. How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!

Psalms 51:4

  1. Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.

Romans 9:23

  1. He also has the right to pour out the riches of his glory upon those he prepared to be the objects of his mercy--

2 Peter 2:12

  1. These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, who are born to be caught and killed. They laugh at the terrifying powers they know so little about, and they will be destroyed along with them.

1 Peter 1:24

  1. As the prophet says, "People are like grass that dies away; their beauty fades as quickly as the beauty of wildflowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall away.

Psalms 90:5

  1. You sweep people away like dreams that disappear or like grass that springs up in the morning.
  2. In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered.
  3. We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.
  4. You spread out our sins before you--our secret sins--and you see them all.
  5. We live our lives beneath your wrath. We end our lives with a groan.

Psalms 73:18

  1. Truly, you put them on a slippery path and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction.
  2. In an instant they are destroyed, swept away by terrors.
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