Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
Cross References
Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:16
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other--they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place: All come from dust, and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:6
if he lives a thousand years twice over, but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2
It 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

Jeremiah 16:8
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

better

Genesis 48:1
Some time later, Joseph was told, "Your father is ill." So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 49:2
Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

Genesis 50:15-17
When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him." . . .

Job 1:4, 5
Job's sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. . . .

Isaiah 5:11, 12
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. . . .

Isaiah 22:12-14
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. . . .

Amos 6:3-6
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence. . . .

Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Matthew 14:6
On Herod's birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod

1 Peter 4:3, 4
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the pagans: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. . . .

that

Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!"

Deuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

Romans 6:21, 22
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death. . . .

Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

living

Deuteronomy 32:46
he said to them, "Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

Isaiah 47:7
You said, 'I will be queen forever.' You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

Haggai 1:5
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Think carefully about your ways.

Malachi 2:2
"If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name, " says the LORD of Hosts, "I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.

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