Cross references

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:3 BSB

Ecclesiastes 9:3 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 17:9 (7 votes) and Ecclesiastes 8:11 (5 votes). 31 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Genesis 6 to 2 Peter 2.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 9:3 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

  2. When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

  3. So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

  4. Job 15:163 votes

    how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

  5. Psalm 51:53 votes

    Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

  6. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. …

  7. Titus 3:33 votes

    For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

  8. When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

  9. The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

  10. I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

  11. 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.

  12. Luke 6:112 votes
  13. Luke 15:172 votes
  14. Acts 12:232 votes
  15. Acts 26:242 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 9:3?

The 10 strongest of 31.