Ecclesiastes 9:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:2

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

Job 35:8

Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.

Ecclesiastes 2:13

Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish waysas the light is better than the dark.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.

2 Timothy 3:8

And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

Joshua 22:20

Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.

Joshua 7:1

But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.

Joshua 7:5

The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

1 Samuel 14:30

How much more if the people had freely taken their food from the goods of those who were fighting against them! would there not have been much greater destruction among the Philistines?