Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:15
In my futile life I have seen both of these:
A righteous man perishing in his righteousness,
and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 7:15 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 8:12–14 (8 votes) and Ecclesiastes 6:12 (6 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 18 to Acts 7.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 7:15 point to?
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- Ecclesiastes 8:12–148 votes
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence. Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow. …
- Ecclesiastes 6:126 votes
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Psalm 73:3–134 votes
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed. …
- Matthew 23:34–354 votes
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
- Ecclesiastes 9:1–23 votes
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate. It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
- Genesis 47:92 votes
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- 1 Samuel 22:18–192 votes
So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
- 1 Kings 21:132 votes
And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
- 2 Chronicles 24:21–222 votes
But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD. Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
- Job 9:22–232 votes
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
- Job 21:7–152 votes
- Psalm 39:62 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:232 votes
- Ecclesiastes 3:162 votes
- Ecclesiastes 5:16–172 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:92 votes
- Isaiah 65:202 votes
- Jeremiah 12:1–22 votes
- Acts 7:522 votes
- John 16:21 vote
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 7:15?
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