Ecclesiastes 7:2

Good News Translation

It is better to go to a home where there is mourning than to one where there is a party, because the living should always remind themselves that death is waiting for us all.

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise can see where they are going, and fools cannot.” But I also know that the same fate is waiting for us all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

No one remembers the wise, and no one remembers fools. In days to come, we will all be forgotten. We must all die—wise and foolish alike.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

After all, the same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. One dies just like the other. They are the same kind of creature. A human being is no better off than an animal, because life has no meaning for either.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

They are both going to the same place—the dust. They both came from it; they will both go back to it.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

more so than the man who never enjoys life, though he may live two thousand years. After all, both of them are going to the same place.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It makes no difference. The same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the bad, to those who are religious and those who are not, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. A good person is no better off than a sinner; one who takes an oath is no better off than one who does not.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

One fate comes to all alike, and this is as wrong as anything that happens in this world. As long as people live, their minds are full of evil and madness, and suddenly they die.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

Yes, the living know they are going to die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward; they are completely forgotten.

Isaiah 47:7

You thought you would always be a queen, and did not take these things to heart or think how it all would end.

Jeremiah 16:8

“Do not enter a house where people are feasting. Do not sit down with them to eat and drink.

Haggai 1:5

Don't you see what is happening to you?

Malachi 2:2

You must honor me by what you do. If you will not listen to what I say, then I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. In fact, I have already put a curse on them, because you do not take my command seriously.

Numbers 23:10

The descendants of Israel are like the dust— There are too many of them to be counted. Let me end my days like one of God's people; Let me die in peace like the righteous.”

Matthew 5:4

“Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them!

Deuteronomy 32:29

They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said, “Be sure to obey all these commands that I have given you today. Repeat them to your children, so that they may faithfully obey all of God's teachings.

Philippians 3:19

They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.

Hebrews 9:27

Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God.