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 the meek, because they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 14:6
Herod's birthday being celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod;
1 Peter 4:3
For the past time is sufficient to have wrought the will of the heathens, walking in impurities, in lusts, in wine-drinkings, in revelries, in intemperance, and in unlawful idolatries:

That

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