Ecclesiastes 7:25 Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:25
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.
Ecclesiastes 10:13
- Since fools base their thoughts on foolish premises, their conclusions will be wicked madness.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
- So I decided to compare wisdom and folly, and anyone else would come to the same conclusions I did.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
- I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done in the world. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.
- Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
- What is wrong cannot be righted. What is missing cannot be recovered.
- I said to myself, "Look, I am wiser than any of the kings who ruled in Jerusalem before me. I have greater wisdom and knowledge than any of them."
- So I worked hard to distinguish wisdom from foolishness. But now I realize that even this was like chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
- I also noticed that throughout the world there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt!
- I said to myself, "In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds."
2 Peter 2:3
- In their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money. But God condemned them long ago, and their destruction is on the way.
- For God did not spare even the angels when they sinned; he threw them into hell, in gloomy caves and darkness until the judgment day.
- And God did not spare the ancient world--except for Noah and his family of seven. Noah warned the world of God's righteous judgment. Then God destroyed the whole world of ungodly people with a vast flood.
- Later, he turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into heaps of ashes and swept them off the face of the earth. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people.
- But at the same time, God rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a good man who was sick of all the immorality and wickedness around him.
2 Peter 3:3
- First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will be scoffers who will laugh at the truth and do every evil thing they desire.
- This will be their argument: "Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created."
- They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command, and he brought the earth up from the water and surrounded it with water.
- Then he used the water to destroy the world with a mighty flood.
- And God has also commanded that the heavens and the earth will be consumed by fire on the day of judgment, when ungodly people will perish.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
- Both of them die. Just as the fool will die, so will I. So of what value is all my wisdom? Then I said to myself, "This is all so meaningless!"
Proverbs 17:12
- It is safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to confront a fool caught in folly.
Jeremiah 12:1
- LORD, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. Now let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?
- You have planted them, and they have taken root and prospered. Your name is on their lips, but in their hearts they give you no credit at all.
Proverbs 26:11
- As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Ecclesiastes 2:1
- I said to myself, "Come now, let's give pleasure a try. Let's look for the `good things' in life." But I found that this, too, was meaningless.
- "It is silly to be laughing all the time," I said. "What good does it do to seek only pleasure?"
- After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. While still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness. In this way, I hoped to experience the only happiness most people find during their brief life in this world.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
- This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God's hands, no one knows whether or not God will show them favor in this life.
- 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.
- 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.
Genesis 34:7
- He arrived just as Jacob's sons were coming in from the fields. They were shocked and furious that their sister had been raped. Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob's family, a thing that should never have been done.
2 Samuel 13:12
- "No, my brother!" she cried. "Don't be foolish! Don't do this to me! You know what a serious crime it is to do such a thing in Israel.
Joshua 7:13
- "Get up! Command the people to purify themselves in preparation for tomorrow. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Hidden among you, O Israel, are things set apart for the LORD. You will never defeat your enemies until you remove these things.
Ecclesiastes 7:27
- "This is my conclusion," says the Teacher. "I came to this result after looking into the matter from every possible angle.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
- So I turned in despair from hard work. It was not the answer to my search for satisfaction in this life.