Ecclesiastes 7:2

A Conservative Version

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. For that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

Deuteronomy 32:29

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

Deuteronomy 32:46

And he said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, because they will be comforted.

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Isaiah 47:7

And thou said, I shall be mistress forever, so that thou did not lay these things to thy heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts, even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts; for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Yea, though he lives a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoys no good, do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man and to the clean man and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man,

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

Jeremiah 16:8

And thou shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.