Ecclesiastes 9:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil act is not carried out quickly,  the heart of people is filled with the desire to commit evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge,  madness and folly;  I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

2 Peter 2:16

but received a rebuke for his lawlessness: A speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

Acts 26:24

As he was saying these things in his defence, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, ‘You’re out of your mind,  Paul! Too much study is driving you mad.’

Acts 12:23

At once an angel of the Lord  struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Luke 15:17

When he came to his senses,   he said, “How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!

Luke 6:11

They, however, were filled with rage and started discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

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 7:25

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom  and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Job 15:16

how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice  like water?

Genesis 8:21

When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma,  he said to himself, ‘I will never again curse the ground  because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward.  And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

Acts 26:11

In all the synagogues I often punished them and tried to make them blaspheme.  Since I was terribly enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

Genesis 6:5

When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,

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 7:2

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:4

But there is hope for whoever is joined  with all the living, since a live dog is better than a dead lion.

Jeremiah 16:12

You did more evil than your ancestors.  Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, examine the mind, I test the heart  , to give to each according to his way, according to what his actions deserve.

Job 9:22

It is all the same. Therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Job 21:26

But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift,  or the battle to the strong,  or bread to the wise, or riches to the discerning, or favour to the skilful; rather, time and chance happen to all of them.