Ecclesiastes 9:3 Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:3
3: It seems so tragic that one fate comes to all. That is why people are not more careful to be good. Instead, they choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway.
Jeremiah 17:9
- "The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
Ecclesiastes 8:11
- When a crime is not punished, people feel it is safe to do wrong.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
- So I worked hard to distinguish wisdom from foolishness. But now I realize that even this was like chasing the wind.
Romans 1:29
- Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.
- They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedient to their parents.
- They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving.
Titus 3:3
- Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled by others and became slaves to many wicked desires and evil pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy. We hated others, and they hated us.
Acts 26:24
- Suddenly, Festus shouted, "Paul, you are insane. Too much study has made you crazy!"
Job 15:16
- How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
Genesis 8:21
- And the LORD was pleased with the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things, even though people's thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
- I searched everywhere, determined to find wisdom and to understand the reason for things. I was determined to prove to myself that wickedness is stupid and that foolishness is madness.
Matthew 15:19
- For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all other sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
- These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands could never defile you and make you unacceptable to God!"
Psalms 51:5
- For I was born a sinner--yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Luke 6:11
- At this, the enemies of Jesus were wild with rage and began to discuss what to do with him.
Mark 7:21
- For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
- adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, eagerness for lustful pleasure, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
- All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you and make you unacceptable to God."
2 Peter 2:16
- But Balaam was stopped from his mad course when his donkey rebuked him with a human voice.
Luke 15:17
- "When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, 'At home even the hired men have food enough to spare, and here I am, dying of hunger!
Proverbs 14:32
- The wicked are crushed by their sins, but the godly have a refuge when they die.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
- The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether they are righteous or wicked, good or bad, ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who take oaths are treated like people who don't.
Acts 12:23
- Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people's worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
- For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Acts 26:11
- Many times I had them whipped in the synagogues to try to get them to curse Christ. I was so violently opposed to them that I even hounded them in distant cities of foreign lands.
Genesis 6:5
- Now the LORD observed the extent of the people's wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil.