Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Bible References

Better

Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 14:6
But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.

That

Romans 6:21
What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
Hebrews 9:27
And, as it is appointed to men once to die, and after this the judgment,