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 it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
• Eccl 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
• Eccl 1:17I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
• Rom 1:29–31being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
• 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.
• Job 15:16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
• Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• Eccl 9:2All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
• Luke 15:17But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
• Luke 6:11But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
• Acts 26:24As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
• 2 Pet 2:16but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
• Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Eccl 7:25I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
• Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• Mark 7:21–23For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
• Matt 15:19–20For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
• Acts 26:11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
• Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

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