Ecclesiastes 2:3

Qohelet's Investigation Of Self-Indulgence

² Of laughter, I said, Madness! and, of mirth, What can it do? ³ I sought out with my heart, to cherish with wine, my flesh, - but, my heart, was to guide with wisdom, even in laying hold of folly, until I should see which was blessedness for the sons of men, as to that which they could do, under the heavens, during the number of the days of their life. ⁴ I enlarged my works, - I built me houses, I planted me vineyards;

It Was Good

My Flesh

On Earth

Sons of Men

Under the Sun

What is Good

Children Of Men

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is, a scoffer, and strong drink, a brawler, every one therefore who erreth therein, is unwise.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

yea I have given my heart, to know wisdom, and to know madness, and folly, - I know that, even this, is a feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what is good for a man throughout his life, for the number of the days of his life of vanity, seeing he will make them, like a shadow, - for who can tell a man, what shall be after him, under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The conclusion of the matter - the whole, let us hear, - Towards God, be reverent, and, his commandments, observe, for, this, concerneth all mankind.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.

1 Samuel 25:36

And, when Abigail came unto Nabal, lo! he, had a banquet in his house, like the banquet of a king, and, the heart of Nabal, was glad accordingly, he having drunk deeply, - so she told him nothing - less or more, until the light of the morning.

Job 14:14

If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -

Psalm 90:9-12

For, all our days, decline in thy wrath, - We end our years like a sigh.

Proverbs 23:29-35

Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness of eyes?

Proverbs 31:4-5

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor, for dignitaries, to desire strong drink,

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There was nothing more blessed for Man than that he should eat and drink, and see his desireth for blessedness in his toil, - even this, saw, I myself, that, from the hand of God, it was.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13

I know that there is no blessedness in them, - save to be glad, and to do well with one's life.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is well that thou shouldst lay fast hold of this, but, even from the other, do not withdraw thy hand, - for, he that revereth God, shall come forth out of them all.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

Resolved, I, in my heart, to know and search out, and to seek wisdom, and a conclusion, - and to know lawlessness to be stupidity, and folly to be madness.

Matthew 6:24

No one, unto two masters, can be in service; for either, the one, he will hate, and, the other ,love, or, one, he will hold to, and, the other, despise: Ye cannot be in service, unto God, and, unto Riches.

2 Corinthians 6:15-17

And what concord hath Christ with Beliar? Or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever?

Ephesians 5:18

And be not getting drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be getting filled in Spirit; -