Ecclesiastes 2:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Ya`akov said to Par`oh, *The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.*

Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

Psalm 104:15

wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his mitzvot; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come forth from them all.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

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 joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Matthew 6:24

*No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

Ephesians 5:18

Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Judges 9:13

The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?

1 Samuel 25:36

Avigayil came to Naval; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Naval's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.