Ecclesiastes 7:23 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:23

23: All along I have tried my best to let wisdom guide my thoughts and actions. I said to myself, "I am determined to be wise." But it didn't really work.

Romans 1:22

  1. Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.

1 Corinthians 1:20

  1. So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.

1 Kings 11:1

  1. Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh's daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites.
  2. The LORD had clearly instructed his people not to intermarry with those nations, because the women they married would lead them to worship their gods. Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway.
  3. He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. And sure enough, they led his heart away from the LORD.
  4. In Solomon's old age, they turned his heart to worship their gods instead of trusting only in the LORD his God, as his father, David, had done.
  5. Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites.

Genesis 3:5

  1. "God knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat it. You will become just like God, knowing everything, both good and evil."

1 Kings 3:11

  1. So God replied, "Because you have asked for wisdom in governing my people and have not asked for a long life or riches for yourself or the death of your enemies--
  2. I will give you what you asked for! I will give you a wise and understanding mind such as no one else has ever had or ever will have!
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