Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Cross References (20)

  • Psalms 90:12 (9)

    So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

  • Hebrews 9:27 (5)

    Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  • Deuteronomy 32:29 (5)

    If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

  • Deuteronomy 32:46 (4)

    he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your chi

  • 1 Peter 4:3–4 (3)

    For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, dr

  • Haggai 1:5 (3)

    Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

  • Philippians 3:19 (3)

    Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly th

  • Isaiah 5:11–12 (2)

    Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wi

  • Isaiah 22:12–14 (2)

    On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

  • Numbers 23:10 (2)

    Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be

  • Matthew 5:4 (2)

    Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

  • Genesis 48:1–22 (2)

    Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • Genesis 49:2–33 (2)

    Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

  • Job 1:4–5 (2)

    Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink wi

  • Amos 6:3–6 (2)

    You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

  • Isaiah 47:7 (2)

    You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

  • Genesis 50:15–17 (2)

    When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely re

  • Romans 6:21–22 (2)

    What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

  • Malachi 2:2 (1)

    If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse

  • Matthew 14:6–12 (1)

    On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod