Ecclesiastes 2:1

New American Bible - revised edition

I said in my heart, “Come, now, let me try you with pleasure and the enjoyment of good things.” See, this too was vanity.

Cross References

Luke 12:19

and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I praised joy, because there is nothing better for mortals under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be joyful; this will accompany them in their toil through the limited days of life God gives them under the sun.

James 5:5

You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.

Psalm 27:8

“Come,” says my heart, “seek his face”; your face, Lord, do I seek!

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”—

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.

Isaiah 50:11

All you who kindle flames and set flares alight, Walk by the light of your own fire and by the flares you have burnt! This is your fate from my hand: you shall lie down in a place of torment.

Isaiah 50:5

The Lord God opened my ear; I did not refuse, did not turn away.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O youth, while you are young and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart, the vision of your eyes; Yet understand regarding all this that God will bring you to judgment.

Ecclesiastes 7:4

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of merriment.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said in my heart, if the fool’s lot is to befall me also, why should I be wise? Where is the profit? And in my heart I decided that this too is vanity.

Psalm 14:1

For the leader. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Their deeds are loathsome and corrupt; not one does what is good.

Psalm 10:6

They say in their hearts, “We will never fall; never will we see misfortune.”

2 Kings 5:5

The king of Aram said, “Go. I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman set out, taking along ten silver talents, six thousand gold pieces, and ten festal garments.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.

Luke 16:23

and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Isaiah 5:5

Now, I will let you know what I am going to do to my vineyard: Take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled!

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart may be sad, and the end of joy may be sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Nothing that my eyes desired did I deny them, nor did I deprive myself of any joy; rather, my heart rejoiced in the fruit of all my toil. This was my share for all my toil.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

For who can eat or drink apart from God?