Ecclesiastes 12:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Of anything beyond these, my child, beware. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Cross References

1 Kings 4:32

He composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow.

John 20:31

But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.

John 21:25

But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

John 5:39

“You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify on my behalf.