Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting, for death is everyone's end and the wise take it to heart. It matters because facing mortality teaches us to live wisely.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
• Heb 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
• Deut 32:29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
• Deut 32:46And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
• Hag 1:5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
• 1 Pet 4:3–4For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
• Phil 3:19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
• Isa 22:12–14And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
• Num 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
• Isa 47:7And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
• Job 1:4–5And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
• Gen 50:15–17And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
• Isa 5:11–12Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
• Gen 48:1–22And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
• Amos 6:3–6Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Matt 5:4Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
• Gen 49:2–33Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
• Rom 6:21–22What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
• Mal 2:2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
• Matt 14:6–12But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

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