Ecclesiastes 2:1

The Preacher tested pleasure and mirth, but found this too was vanity. Seeking meaning in enjoyment alone proves empty.

Cross-references · 24

• Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
• Eccl 8:15Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
• Jas 5:5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
• Ps 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
• Jas 5:1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Rev 18:7–8However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
• Gen 11:3–4They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Eccl 1:16–17I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
• Eccl 2:15Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
• Isa 50:5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
• Jas 4:13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
• Ps 14:1For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
• Ps 30:6–7As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
• Eccl 3:17–18I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”
• 2 Kgs 5:5The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
• Isa 50:11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: You will lie down in sorrow.
• Gen 11:7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
• Eccl 7:4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
• Eccl 11:9Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
• Luke 16:19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
• Ps 10:6He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”
• Isa 5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
• Luke 16:23In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

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