Verse 3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:17 : 17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 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.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • 2 Pet 2:16 : 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"
  • Matt 15:19-20 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. 20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
  • Mark 7:21-23 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
  • Luke 6:11 : 11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
  • Luke 15:17 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Eccl 7:25 : 25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
  • Job 15:16 : 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
  • Acts 26:11 : 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.