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 desperately wicked: 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 1:17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
• Rom 1:29–31Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
• Gen 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, 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 and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
• Luke 15:17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
• Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
• Acts 26:24And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
• 2 Pet 2:16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
• Acts 12:23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• Eccl 7:25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
• Eccl 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
• Mark 7:21–23For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Matt 15:19–20For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Acts 26:11And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
• Gen 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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