Ecclesiastes 7:2

New Century Version

It is better to go to a funeral than to a party. We all must die, and everyone living should think about this.

Cross References

Psalm 90:12

Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may be wise.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

Wise people see where they are going, but fools walk around in the dark. Yet I saw that both wise and foolish people end the same way.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

The wise person and the fool will both die, and no one will remember either one for long. In the future, both will be forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

The same thing happens to animals and to people; they both have the same breath, so they both die. People are no better off than the animals, because everything is useless.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

Both end up the same way; both came from dust and both will go back to dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even if he lives two thousand years, he doesn’t enjoy the good God gives him. Everyone is going to the same place.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Good and bad people end up the same— those who are right and those who are wrong, those who are good and those who are evil, those who are clean and those who are unclean, those who sacrifice and those who do not. The same things happen to a good person as happen to a sinner, to a person who makes promises to God and to one who does not.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is something wrong that happens here on earth: What happens to one happens to all. So people’s minds are full of evil and foolish thoughts while they live. After that, they join the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living know they will die, but the dead know nothing. Dead people have no more reward, and people forget them.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, ‘I will live forever as the queen.’ But you did not think about these things or consider what would happen.

Jeremiah 16:8

“Do not go into a house where the people are having a feast to sit down to eat and drink,

Haggai 1:5

This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: “Think about what you have done.

Malachi 2:2

Listen to me. Pay attention to what I say. Honor my name,” says the Lord All-Powerful. “If you don’t, I will send a curse on you and on your blessings. I have already cursed them, because you don’t pay attention to what I say.

Numbers 23:10

No one can number the many people of Jacob, and no one can count a fourth of Israel. Let me die like good men, and let me end up like them!”

Matthew 5:4

They are blessed who grieve, for God will comfort them.

Deuteronomy 32:29

I wish they were wise and understood this; I wish they could see what will happen to them.

Deuteronomy 32:46

he said to them: “Pay careful attention to all the words I have said to you today, and command your children to obey carefully everything in these teachings.

Philippians 3:19

In the end, they will be destroyed. They do whatever their bodies want, they are proud of their shameful acts, and they think only about earthly things.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as everyone must die once and then be judged,