Ecclesiastes 2:3

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

I thought in mine heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I should lead over my soul to wisdom, and that I would eschew folly, till I should see, what were profitable to the sons of men; in which deed the number of days of their life under the sun is needful.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And he answered, The days of [the] pilgrimage of my life be few and evil, of an hundred and thirty years, and those [or they] have not come to the days of my fathers, in which they were pilgrims.

Job 14:14

Guessest thou, whether a dead man shall live again? Now in all the days, in which I hold knighthood, I abide, till my exchanging come.

Psalm 104:15

and that wine make glad the heart of men. That he make glad the face with oil; and that bread make steadfast the heart of man.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a lecherous thing, and drunkenness is full of noise; whoever delighteth in these, shall not be wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave mine heart, that I should know prudence and doctrine, and errors and folly. And I knew that in these things also was travail and torment of spirit;

Ecclesiastes 10:19

In laughing, they dispose bread and wine, that they drinking eat largely; and all things obey to money.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

All we hear together the end of speaking. Dread thou God, and keep his behests; that is to know, every man.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Whether it is not better to eat and drink, and to show to his soul [the] goods of his travails? and this thing is of the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Therefore this seemed good to me, that a man eat, and drink, and use gladness of his travail, in which he travailed under the sun, in the number of [the] days of his life, which God gave to him; and this is his part.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

since he knoweth not, what shall befall to him in his life, in the number of days of his pilgrimage, and in the time that passeth as shadow? either who may show to him, what thing under [the] sun shall come after him?

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good, that thou sustain a just [or rightwise] man; but also withdraw thou not thine hand from him; for he that dreadeth God, is not negligent of anything.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I compassed all things with my soul, to know, and to behold, and seek wisdom, and reason, and to know the wickedness of a fool, and the error of unprudent men.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I praised gladness, that no good was to a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and to be joyful; and that he should bear away with himself only this of his travail, in the days of his life, which God gave to him under the sun.

Matthew 6:24

No man may serve two lords, for either he shall hate the one, and love the tother; either he shall sustain the one, and despise the other. Ye may not serve God and riches.

Ephesians 5:18

And do not ye be drunk of wine, in which is lechery [or is luxury], but be ye filled with the Holy Ghost;

Judges 9:13

Which answered, Whether I may forsake my wine, that gladdeth God and men, and be advanced among other trees?

1 Samuel 25:36

Forsooth Abigail came to Nabal; and lo! a feast was to him in his house, as the feast of a king; and the heart of Nabal was merry, certainly he was full drunken; and she showed not to him a word, little or great, till the morrow.