Ecclesiastes 9:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Also

And madness

After

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Proverbs 14:32

Acts 12:23

General references

Acts 27:42

Bible References

Also

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, FALSE witnessings, revilings.

For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

And madness

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

But they were filled with fury, and deliberated with each other what they might do to Jesus.

But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.

And punishing them often at all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being extraordinarily furious toward them, I persecuted them even as far as to outside cities.

But he had a rebuke of his own lawbreaking. A mute donkey, uttering in a man's voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.

After

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

And immediately an agent of Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

General references

And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

But the chief priests decided that they should kill Lazarus also,

And a decision of the soldiers developed that they should kill the prisoners, lest any man, having swam away, might escape.