Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it?
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.
Ecclesiastes 2:9
And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Ecclesiastes 2:10
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do [them]; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what shall the man [do] that cometh after the king? -- that which hath already been done.
Ecclesiastes 2:13
And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?
Ecclesiastes 2:17
And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knoweth whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing good for man, but that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 2:25
For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
King James Bible
Bible Verses About love - Psalms 11:7
For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Bible Verses About love - Hebrews 1:9
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Bible Scriptures - John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Bible Verses About love - Deuteronomy 30:6
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Bible Verses About love - Song-of-Solomon 1:15
Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes.
Bible Verses About pilate - Mark 15:14
Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
Bible Verses About establish - Chronicles-1 17:23
Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
Bible Verses About spiritual - Colossians 1:9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Bible Verses About hearkened - Joshua 10:14
And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
Bible Verses About dwelleth - Acts 7:48
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Bible Verses About isles - Zephania 2:11
The LORD [will be] terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and [men] shall worship him, every one from his place, [even] all the isles of the heathen.
Bible Verses About uriah - Kings-1 15:5
Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
Bible Verses About pure - Exodus 30:23
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],
Bible Verses About forsake - Ezekiel 8:12
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
Bible Verses About time - Luke 4:5
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Bible Verses About asunder - Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Bible Verses About oil - Leviticus 2:4
And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
Bible Verses About greeks - Acts 18:17
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat [him] before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
Bible Verses About mizpeh - Samuel-1 10:17
And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
Bible Verses About posts - Exodus 12:23
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you].
Bible Verses About floor - Chronicles-1 21:15
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Bible Verses About astonishment - Zecharia 12:4
In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
Bible Verses About cherubims - Chronicles-1 28:18
And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
Bible Verses About leper - Matthew 10:8
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Bible Verses About gospel - Romans 11:28
As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes.
Bible Verses About peace - Ezekiel 46:12
Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, [one] shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth [one] shall shut the gate.
Bible Verses About joy - Matthew 28:8
And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
Bible Verses About dreams - Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.
Bible Verses About forgive - Leviticus 5:10
And he shall offer the second [for] a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
Bible Verses About fear - Luke 8:37
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
Bible Verses About money - Judges 16:18
And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
Bible Verses About courage - Psalms 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Bible Verses About patience - Peter-2 1:6
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
Bible Verses About birth - Luke 1:14
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
Bible Verses About grace - Genesis 34:11
And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
Bible Verses About prayer - Psalms 42:8
[Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.
Bible Verses About giving - Corinthians-1 14:7
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
Bible Verses About poor - Leviticus 23:22
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.
Bible Verses About visions - Daniel 7:1
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, [and] told the sum of the matters.
Bible Verses About lying - John 13:25
He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
Bible Verses About tongue - Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
Bible Verses About tithes - Nehemiah 12:44
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
Bible Verses About fathers - Chronicles-2 15:12
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
Bible Verses About kindness - Corinthians-2 6:6
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
Bible Verses About wisdom - Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
Bible Scriptures About obedience - Romans 1:5
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Bible Scriptures About arise - Mark 3:6
And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
Bible Scriptures About inheritance - Kings-1 21:4
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Bible Scriptures About soul - Psalms 146:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
Bible Scriptures About sabbath - John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.
Bible Scriptures About corn - Hosea 2:9
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.
Bible Scriptures About fools - Ecclesiastes 7:4
The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth.
Bible Scriptures About incense - Chronicles-2 28:25
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
Bible Scriptures About whoredom - Hosea 6:10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Bible Scriptures About rain - Jeremiah 14:10
Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
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Bible Verses About visions - 1-Chronicles 26:1
For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.
Bible Verses About wisdom - Revelation 7:12
So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.
Bible Verses About faith - 1-Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
Bible Verses About grace - Isaiah 60:10
And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.
Bible Verses About money - Proverbs 20:14
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.
Bible Verses About dreams - Zechariah 10:2
For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
Bible Verses About life - 1-Samuel 7:15
And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.
Bible Verses About baptism - John 4:2
(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),
Bible Verses About water - Leviticus 14:50
And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;
Bible Verses About caring - Deuteronomy 12:19
See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
Bible Verses About mothers - Mark 13:12
And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.
Bible Verses About friend - Judges 14:20
But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.
Bible Verses About fear - Isaiah 8:9
Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:
Bible Verses About peace - Isaiah 48:18
If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Bible Verses About birth - Genesis 38:28
And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.
Bible Verses About love - Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
Bible Verses About joy - Luke 1:44
For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.
Bible Verses About poor - Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
Bible Verses About heaven - 2-Kings 7:19
And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
Bible Verses About purpose - Philippians 1:17
But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.
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Bible Verses About adam - Corinthians-1 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Bible Verses About jehu - Kings-2 15:12
This [was] the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth [generation]. And so it came to pass.
Bible Verses About consent - Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Bible Verses About methuselah - Chronicles-1 1:3
Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
Bible Verses About hymn - Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Bible Verses About bondservant - Leviticus 25:39
And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Bible Verses About block - Ezekiel 3:20
Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Bible Verses About flame - Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames.
Bible Verses About whisper - Proverbs 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Bible Verses About itch - Judges 6:33
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
Bible Verses About nourish - Ezekiel 19:2
And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Bible Verses About brow - Genesis 30:32
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.
Bible Verses About shave - Corinthians-1 11:5
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
Bible Verses About offspring - Isaiah 48:19
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
Bible Verses About willow - Job 40:22
The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Bible Verses About fortified - Chronicles-2 11:11
And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
Bible Verses About seat - Leviticus 16:15
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that [is] for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
Bible Verses About physician - Colossians 4:14
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
Bible Verses About thorns - Proverbs 24:31
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Bible Verses About forest - Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
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