Ecclesiastes 2:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Cross References

Genesis 7:1

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

Job 32:8

But truly it is the spirit in a mortal, the breath of the Almighty that makes for understanding.

Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 28:8

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.

Luke 1:6

Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

John 16:24

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.