Ecclesiastes 2:3

A Conservative Version

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th

Cross References

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever errs thereby is not wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

Ephesians 5:18

And do not become intoxicated with wine, during which is debauchery, but be filled in Spirit,

Ecclesiastes 12:13

[This is] the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Matthew 6:24

No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and disparage the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that thou should take hold of this, yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand. For he who fears God shall come forth from them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

Judges 9:13

And the vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

Psalm 104:15

and wine that makes glad the heart of man, [and] oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes glad the life, and money answers all things.