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Ecclesiastes 5

King James Version · 20 verses · 487 cross-references linking it to 252 other chapters

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  1. 1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.41 cross-references: James 1:19, Hebrews 12:28–29, Proverbs 15:8, 1 Peter 2:1–2, Isaiah 1:12–20
  2. 2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.33 cross-references: Matthew 6:7, Proverbs 10:19, Isaiah 55:9, Matthew 6:9, Genesis 18:27
  3. 3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.12 cross-references: Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 10:19, Ecclesiastes 10:12–14, Job 11:2
  4. 4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.45 cross-references: Numbers 30:2, Deuteronomy 23:21–23, Psalms 76:11, Matthew 5:33, Psalms 66:13–14
  5. 5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.5 cross-references: Acts 5:4, Proverbs 20:25, Deuteronomy 23:22
  6. 6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?23 cross-references: James 1:26, 2 John 1:8, James 3:2, Malachi 2:7, Ecclesiastes 5:1–2
  7. 7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.16 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 12:36, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 5:3, Ecclesiastes 3:14
  8. 8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.90 cross-references: Psalms 12:5, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 3:16, 1 Kings 21:19–20, Matthew 13:41–42
  9. 9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.15 cross-references: 1 Kings 4:7–23, Proverbs 28:19, Proverbs 13:23, Proverbs 27:23–27, 1 Chronicles 27:26–31
  10. 10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.36 cross-references: 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 6:24, Luke 12:15, Matthew 6:19, Ecclesiastes 4:8
  11. 11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?16 cross-references: 1 John 2:16, Habakkuk 2:13, Psalms 119:36–37, Proverbs 23:5, Ecclesiastes 6:9
  12. 12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.10 cross-references: Proverbs 3:24, Psalms 4:8, Psalms 127:2, Jeremiah 31:26
  13. 13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.42 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 6:1–2, Luke 18:22–23, Genesis 19:14, Luke 16:22–23, Proverbs 1:11–13
  14. 14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.18 cross-references: Proverbs 23:5, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Haggai 2:16–17, Haggai 1:9, Matthew 6:19–20
  15. 15As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.11 cross-references: Psalms 49:17, Job 1:21, 1 Timothy 6:7, Luke 12:20
  16. 16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?17 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 1:3, Proverbs 11:29, Mark 8:36, John 6:27, 1 Samuel 12:21
  17. 17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.21 cross-references: Psalms 127:2, 1 Corinthians 11:30–32, Psalms 90:7–11, 1 Kings 17:12, 2 Chronicles 16:10–12
  18. 18Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.26 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 3:12–13, Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 9:7, Ecclesiastes 8:15
  19. 19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.10 cross-references: Deuteronomy 8:18, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 6:2, 2 Chronicles 1:12, Ecclesiastes 2:24–26
  20. 20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.10 cross-references: Isaiah 65:21–24, Isaiah 65:13–14, Psalms 37:16, Romans 5:1, Psalms 4:6–7

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