Ecclesiastes 2:3

Qohelet's Investigation Of Self-Indulgence

² I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it? 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. ⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

It Was Good

My Flesh

On Earth

Sons of Men

Under the Sun

What is Good

Children Of Men

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Job 14:14

(If a man die, shall he live again?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:

Psalm 90:9-12

For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.

Proverbs 23:29-35

Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?

Proverbs 31:4-5

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to say, Where is the strong drink?

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 3:12-13

I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;

Ecclesiastes 7:18

It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God cometh forth from them all.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;

Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

2 Corinthians 6:15-17

and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever?

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,