Ecclesiastes 2:3

The English Standar Version

I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine -- my heart still guiding me with wisdom -- and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.[1]

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

Ephesians 5:18

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.[2]

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Matthew 6:24

"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.[6]

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment[2] in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal[2] should come.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."

Judges 9:13

But the vine said to them, 'Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?'

Psalm 104:15

and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment[7] in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.