Ecclesiastes 7:2

Modern English Version

It is better to go to a house of mourning for a funeral than to go to a house of feasting for a celebration; for this is the destiny of all humanity; and the living should consider this in their heart.

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

A wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool continues in darkness. Moreover, I experienced that each one experiences the same event—death.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise or the fool, seeing that in the coming days everyone will have been forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For there is an event for people and an event for animals, one fate for them both; as one dies, so does the other; there is one breath for all of them. There is no advantage for people over animals, for everything is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; everything came from dust, and returns to dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Though the man may live a thousand years twice over, yet does not enjoy the good things, do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:2

The same fate comes to all; there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the evil, for the clean and unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As is the good person, So is the sinful person; 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, that the same fate comes to all people. Moreover, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live; after that they go to the place of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no more reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I shall be a queen forever,” but you did not take these things to heart, nor remember the outcome of them.

Jeremiah 16:8

Also you shall not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

Haggai 1:5

Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart to give honor to My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse on you and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob and the number of one-fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!”

Matthew 5:4

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

Deuteronomy 32:29

Would that they were wise, so that they understood this, so that they would comprehend their future!

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them, “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe, all the words of this law.

Philippians 3:19

Their destination is destruction, their god is their appetite, their glory is in their shame, their minds are set on earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,