Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
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Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
Ecclesiastes 7:4
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
Ecclesiastes 10:19
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.
Genesis 43:34
He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.
Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:13
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
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Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
Job 34:31
“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Revelation 7:14
I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering. They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
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Psalms 90:12
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
Deuteronomy 32:29
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
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Hebrews 9:27
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
John 11:31
Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
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Jeremiah 16:7
Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Jeremiah 16:8
“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
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Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
Isaiah 22:13
and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
Amos 6:4
who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall,
Amos 6:5
who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
Amos 6:6
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
1 Peter 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
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