Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

Cross References (21)

  • Jeremiah 17:9 (7)

    The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

  • Ecclesiastes 8:11 (5)

    When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:17 (4)

    So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

  • Psalms 51:5 (3)

    Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

  • Job 15:16 (3)

    how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

  • Titus 3:3 (3)

    For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m

  • Romans 1:29–31 (3)

    They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife

  • Proverbs 14:32 (2)

    The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

  • Luke 15:17 (2)

    Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, star

  • Ecclesiastes 9:2 (2)

    It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean

  • Acts 12:23 (2)

    Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms an

  • Luke 6:11 (2)

    But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

  • Mark 7:21–23 (2)

    For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

  • Ecclesiastes 12:7 (2)

    before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • Acts 26:24 (2)

    At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving

  • Genesis 8:21 (2)

    When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, eve

  • Ecclesiastes 7:25 (2)

    I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of

  • 2 Peter 2:16 (2)

    But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restra

  • Matthew 15:19–20 (1)

    For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

  • Acts 26:11 (1)

    I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I

  • Genesis 6:5 (1)

    Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his