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 count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
• Heb 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
• Deut 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
• Deut 32:46He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
• Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
• 1 Pet 4:3–4For 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.
• Phil 3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
• Isa 22:12–14In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
• Num 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
• Isa 47:7You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
• Job 1:4–5His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
• Gen 50:15–17When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
• Isa 5:11–12Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
• Gen 48:1–22After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
• Amos 6:3–6Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
• Gen 49:2–33Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
• Rom 6:21–22What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
• Mal 2:2If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
• Matt 14:6–12But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

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