Ecclesiastes 7:29

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Lo this onlye haue I founde, that God made man iust and right: but they sought many inuentions.

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  • Gen 1:26-27 : 26 God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth. 27 So God created man in his owne image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
  • Gen 3:6-7 : 6 And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate. 7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sowed fygge leaues together, & made them selues apernes.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 Neuerthelesse, this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolishe, and hath not knowen me: they are the children of foolishnesse, and without any discretion: To do euyll, they haue wit inough: but to do well, they haue no wisdome.
  • Ezek 22:6-9 : 6 Beholde the rulers of Israel, euery one in thee was redy to his power to shed blood. 7 In thee haue they dispised father and mother, in thee haue they oppressed the straunger, in thee haue they vexed the widowe and the fatherlesse. 8 Thou hast dispised my holy thynges, and defiled my Sabbathes. 9 Tale tellers are there in thee to shed blood, in thee are such as eate vpon the hylles, and in thee they commit abhomination. 10 In thee they discouered their fathers shame, in thee they haue humbled her that was set apart for pollution. 11 Euery man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbours wife, and abhominably defiled his daughter in lawe, in thee hath euery man forced his owne sister, euen his fathers daughter. 12 Yea giftes haue ben receaued in thee to shed blood, thou hast taken vsurie and encrease, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, saith the Lorde God. 13 Beholde, I haue smitten my handes vpon thy couetousnesse that thou hast vsed, and vpon the blood which hath ben shed in thee.
  • Mark 7:8-9 : 8 For ye laye the commaundement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of me: as the wasshing of pottes & cuppes. And many other such like thinges ye do. 9 And he sayde vnto them: Well, ye cast asyde the commaundement of God, to mayntayne your owne tradition.
  • Acts 7:40-43 : 40 Saying vnto Aaron, Make vs gods to go before vs. For as for this Moyses that brought vs out of the lande of Egypt, we wote not what is become of hym. 41 And they made a Calfe in those dayes, and offred sacrifice vnto the idoll, and reioyced ouer the workes of their owne handes. 42 Then God turned hym selfe away, & gaue them vp to worship the hoast of heauen, as it is written in ye booke of the prophetes: O ye house of Israel, haue ye offered to me slayne beastes, and sacrifices, by the space of fourtie yeres in the wyldernesse? 43 And ye toke vnto you the tabernacle of Moloch, and the starre of your god Remphan, figures whiche ye made to worship them: And I wyll carry you away beyonde Babylon.
  • Rom 1:21-32 : 21 Because that when they knewe God, they glorified hym not as God, neither were thankefull, but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations, and their foolishe heart was blynded. 22 When they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: 23 And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes. 24 Wherefore God gaue them vp to vncleanenesse, through the lustes of their owne heartes, to defyle their owne bodies among them selues. 25 Whiche chaunged his trueth for a lye, and worshipped and serued the creature, more then the creator, which is to be praysed for euer. Amen. 26 Wherefore God gaue them vp vnto shamefull lustes: For euen their women dyd chaunge the naturall vse, into that which is agaynst nature. 27 And likewise also, the men left the naturall vse of the woman, and brent in their lustes one with another, and men with men wrought fylthynesse, and receaued to them selues the rewarde of their errour (as it was accordyng) 28 And as they regarded not to knowe God: euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a leude mynde, that they should do those thinges which were not comely: 29 Beyng full of all vnrighteousnes, fornication, craftynesse, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuie, murther, debate, deceite, euyll conditioned, whysperers, 30 Backbyters, haters of God, dispiteful, proude, boasters, bryngers vp of euyll thinges, disobedient to father & mother: 31 Without vnderstandyng, couenaunt breakers, without naturall affection, truice breakers, vnmercyfull. 32 The whiche knowyng the righteousnes of God, howe that they which commit such thynges are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also haue pleasure in them that do them.
  • Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? Are we better then they? No, in no wise. For we haue alredy proued, howe that both Iewes and Gentiles are all vnder sinne. 10 As it is written: There is none righteous, no not one. 11 There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the waye, they are all vnprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one. 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse. 15 Their feete are swyft to shed blood. 16 Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes. 17 And they way of peace haue they not knowen. 18 There is no feare of God before their eyes. 19 Nowe we knowe that what thynges so euer the lawe saith, it saith it to them which are vnder the lawe: That all mouthes maye be stopped, and that al ye world may be indaungered to God.
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In the which in time passed ye walked, according to the course of this worlde, after the gouernour that ruleth in the ayre, the spirite that nowe worketh in the chyldren of disobedience. 3 Among whom we all had our conuersation also in tyme past in the lustes of our flesshe, fulfyllyng the wyll of the flesshe, and of the mynde, & were by nature the chyldren of wrath, euen as other:
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we our selues also were some tyme foolyshe, disobedient, deceaued, seruyng diuers lustes & voluptuousnes, lyuyng in maliciousnesse and enuie, full of hate, hatyng one another.
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.
  • Gen 6:5-6 : 5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day. 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.
  • Gen 6:11-12 : 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie. 12 And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.
  • Gen 11:4-6 : 4 And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth. 5 But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded. 6 And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, and this they begin to do: neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do.
  • Ps 99:8 : 8 O God our Lord thou heardest them, O Lorde thou didst forbeare them: and thou tokest auengement for their owne inuentions.
  • Ps 106:29 : 29 And they prouoked the Lorde vnto anger with their owne inuentions: and a plague fell mightily amongst them.
  • Ps 106:39 : 39 Thus were they stayned with their owne workes: and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions.
  • Jer 2:12-13 : 12 Be astonished O ye heauens, be afraide and abashed at such a thyng, saith the Lorde. 13 For my people hath done two euils: they haue forsaken me the well of the water of lyfe, and digged them pittes, yea vile and broken pittes that can holde no water.

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