Ecclesiastes 8:5

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 8:5

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

Keepeth

A wise

Bible References

Keepeth

Keep the king’s command because of your oath made before God.

The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

Then I would not be ashamed
when I think about all Your commands.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
for he is determined to follow what is worthless.

“Well then,” He told them, “give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.”

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

Therefore, you must submit, not only because of wrath, but also because of your conscience.

And who will harm you if you are deeply committed to what is good?

A wise

The wise man has eyes in his head,
but the fool walks in darkness.

Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.

A wise man’s heart goes to the right,
but a fool’s heart to the left.

From the Issacharites, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command.

Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive,
but a fool’s eyes roam to the ends of the earth.

Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this time?

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.