Ecclesiastes 2:1

American King James Version (1999)

I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

2 Kings 5:5

And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

Psalm 10:6

He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Psalm 14:1

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

Psalm 27:8

When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

Ecclesiastes 7:4

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

Isaiah 5:5

And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

Isaiah 50:11

Behold, all you that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.

Isaiah 50:5

The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Luke 16:19

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

Luke 16:23

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

James 4:13

Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

James 5:1

Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.

James 5:5

You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.