Ecclesiastes 9:3

A Conservative Version

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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because 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.

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.

Titus 3:3

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

2 Peter 2:16

But he had a rebuke of his own lawbreaking. A mute donkey, uttering in a man's voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.

Acts 26:24

And while he made a defense by these things, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, thou are mad. Much scholarship is driving thee into madness.

Acts 12:23

And immediately an agent of Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

Luke 15:17

But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.

Luke 6:11

But they were filled with fury, and deliberated with each other what they might do to Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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 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.

Proverbs 14:32

An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Job 15:16

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Genesis 8:21

And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything

Acts 26:11

And punishing them often at all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being extraordinarily furious toward them, I persecuted them even as far as to outside cities.

Genesis 6:5

And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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 7:2

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Jeremiah 16:12

And ye have done evil more than your fathers, for, behold, ye walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not to me.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Job 9:22

It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.

Psalm 64:7

But God will shoot at them. With an arrow they shall suddenly be wounded.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens t