Ecclesiastes 9:3

It is an evil that one fate falls to all, and human hearts are full of evil and madness while they live before they go to the dead. The shared destiny of death exposes the depth of human sin.

Cross-references · 21

• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
• Eccl 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
• Eccl 1:17So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
• Ps 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Rom 1:29–31They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
• Gen 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
• Eccl 9:2It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
• Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
• Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
• Acts 26:24At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”
• 2 Pet 2:16But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Eccl 7:25I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
• Eccl 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Prov 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• Mark 7:21–23For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
• Matt 15:19–20For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

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