Ecclesiastes 7:8

The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience surpasses pride. It matters because outcomes and humble perseverance prove more valuable than promising starts or arrogance.

Cross-references · 19

• Heb 10:36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
• Prov 14:29He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• Jas 5:8You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
• Prov 15:18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
• Luke 21:19“By your endurance you will win your lives.
• Prov 16:32One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
• Rom 2:7–8to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Prov 13:10Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.
• 1 Pet 2:20–21For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
• Prov 28:25One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
• Eph 4:2with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
• 1 Pet 5:5–6Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Isa 10:24–25Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
• Isa 10:28–34He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

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