Ecclesiastes 7:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

For often your own heart knows that you yourself have cursed others.

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  • 1 Kgs 2:44 : 44 The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart knows very well, that you did to David my father; therefore the Lord will return your wickedness upon your own head.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Matt 18:32-35 : 32 Then his lord, after he had called him, said to him, O wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you? 34 And his lord was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. 35 So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you do not forgive from your hearts every one his brother their trespasses.
  • John 8:7-9 : 7 So when they continued asking him, he stood up and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first throw a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And those who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest, even to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.
  • Jas 3:9 : 9 With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:21
    82%

    21Also, do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant curse you.

  • Job 15:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • Eccl 7:23
    72%

    23All this have I tested by wisdom. I said, 'I will be wise,' but it was far from me.

  • Jer 4:18
    71%

    18Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

  • Prov 23:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: "Eat and drink," he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Hab 2:10
    70%

    10You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.

  • Prov 19:3
    70%

    3The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.

  • Job 20:4
    70%

    4Do you not know this of old, since man was placed on earth,

  • Prov 27:2
    70%

    2Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

  • Job 15:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Deut 29:19
    70%

    19And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

  • Eccl 7:7
    69%

    7Surely oppression makes a wise man mad, and a bribe destroys the heart.

  • Job 5:3
    69%

    3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

  • Prov 14:10
    69%

    10The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy.

  • Job 36:17
    69%

    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • Eccl 7:16
    69%

    16Do not be overly righteous, nor make yourself overly wise; why should you destroy yourself?

  • 1 Kgs 2:44
    69%

    44The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart knows very well, that you did to David my father; therefore the Lord will return your wickedness upon your own head.

  • Prov 29:24
    69%

    24Whoever is a partner with a thief hates his own soul; he hears cursing, and does not reveal it.

  • Dan 5:22
    69%

    22And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this.

  • Prov 30:32
    69%

    32If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.

  • Ps 50:19
    69%

    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Eccl 5:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

    7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also various vanities; but fear God.

  • Isa 47:10
    69%

    10For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is none else besides me.'

  • Ps 119:21
    69%

    21You rebuke the proud, the cursed, who stray from Your commandments.

  • Prov 30:10
    69%

    10Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

  • Ps 50:21
    69%

    21These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.

  • Jas 3:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.

    10Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

  • Ps 50:17
    69%

    17Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.

  • Lam 3:65
    69%

    65Give them sorrow of heart, Your curse upon them.

  • Eccl 7:9
    69%

    9Do not be quick in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

  • Job 10:13
    68%

    13And these things have You hidden in Your heart: I know that this is with You.

  • Job 35:8
    68%

    8Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

  • Eccl 7:25
    68%

    25I applied my heart to know, to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even foolishness and madness.

  • Prov 22:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.

    20Have I not written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

  • Job 11:6
    68%

    6And that He would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double what is! Know therefore that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

  • Job 15:8
    68%

    8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

  • Deut 8:5
    68%

    5You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

  • Prov 10:19
    68%

    19In the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

  • Prov 24:24
    68%

    24He who says to the wicked, You are righteous; him the people shall curse, nations shall abhor him.

  • Job 31:30
    68%

    30Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul.

  • Acts 8:22
    68%

    22Repent therefore of this wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

  • Ps 36:2
    68%

    2For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

  • Job 5:27
    68%

    27Behold this, we have searched it out, it is true; hear it, and know it for your good.

  • Prov 15:7
    68%

    7The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the heart of the foolish does not.