Ecclesiastes 1:16

Legacy Standard Bible

I spoke within my heart, saying, “Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my heart has seen an abundance of wisdom and knowledge.”

Cross References

1 Kings 10:7

Nevertheless I did not believe those words, until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not declared to me. You exceed, in wisdom and prosperity, the report which I heard.

1 Kings 4:30

And Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 5:9

My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place where you direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away. Then you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household.”

2 Kings 5:20

Then Gehazi, the young man of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

2 Chronicles 2:12

Then Huram said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, knowledgeable in insight and understanding, who will build a house for Yahweh and a royal palace for himself.

Psalm 4:4

¶Tremble, and do not sin; Ponder in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Psalm 77:6

I remember my music in the night; I am musing with my heart, And my spirit is searching:

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with gladness, so that you shall see good things.” And behold, it too was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said in my heart, “As is the fate of the fool, so will my fate be also. Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said in my heart, “This too is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 2:9

Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I said in my heart, “God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man,” for a time for every matter and for every work is there.

Jeremiah 22:14

Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house With spacious upper rooms And cut out its windows, Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’

Daniel 4:30

The king answered and said, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal house by the strength of my power and for the glory of my majesty?’

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil.