Ecclesiastes 7:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, since that is the end of all mankind, and the living should take it to heart.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise, they would comprehend this; they would understand their fate.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for people to die once #– #and after this, judgement   #– #

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, ‘Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today,  so that you may command your children to follow all the words of this law carefully.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory  is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.

Matthew 5:4

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

Haggai 1:5

Now, the Lord of Armies says this: ‘Think carefully  about  your ways:

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I will be the queen for ever.” You did not take these things to heart or think about their outcome.

Numbers 23:10

Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered even quarter of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my life be like theirs.

Malachi 2:2

If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart  to honour my name,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings.  In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise person has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise,  since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies just like the fool?

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same.  As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

And if a person lives for a thousand years twice, but does not experience happiness, do not both go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everything is the same for everyone:  There is one fate for the righteous and the wicked,  for the good and the bad,  for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so also it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so also for the one who fears an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live;  after that they go to the dead.

Jeremiah 16:8

Do not enter the house where feasting is taking place to sit with them to eat and drink.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.